An amazing film for the Affectless generation.

Rating: 10/10 (4 July 2006)

This is a movie that perfectly reflects the generation born in the 80's. A generation of 20-somethings brought up in an emerging technically savy world, where it was just becoming popular to drug your children for being 'different' or hyper. A generation that was drugged to the gills, whether it be with prescription medications or freely chosen street drugs.
The numbness and tranquility of the first part of the movie perfectly reflects what life is like for those on a multitude of prescriptions, having completely forgotten what it's like to experience life un-modulated.
As the movie goes on, life seems to gain more color, and stop moving so slowly for Andrew, as he wakes up from his drug induced haze and starts experiencing life. Life as it really is, raw, and at times painful, but also full of joy and love that one is unable to experience when one's emotions are so tightly controlled by medication.
It's truly THE movie that speaks to this generation, and will always remind us of how it was.
I just can't understand how anyone can say it was a bad movie. The only explanation I can come up with is they didn't have the intelligence to understand the film.