lousilberling Review of Broken

Broken (I) (2006)

Doesn't anyone get it? Will IS the heroin addiction...

[8/10 · 27 November 2008]

I haven't seen anyone else comment on this point, so here goes. Will (Jeremy Sisto), who plays Hope's (Heather Graham) "boyfriend" in the film, IS THE HEROIN. His character is a metaphor for the heroin addiction. He doesn't actually exist. It's the heroin that makes Hope do all the terrible things she does -- Will is like an embodied spirit of heroin, if you will -- and the heroin that almost kills her (like Will with the gun -- the gun is the needle...). She almost kills herself OD'ing at the end, but it's really her "shooting Will with the gun" that in the end, saves her -- because she is killing the addiction by almost killing herself (and the short-order cook helps her out.) Great film. Watch it for the clever metaphor, not as a literal tale.