TIMELESS!

Rating: 10/10 (2 September 2018)

I promised myself that I was never going to rewatch this movie. After years and years of the easiest promise ever, I succumbed to the temptation to see if it still holds up.
This movie deals with drugs abuse in the least exciting and glorifying way possible.
If this isn't film as art... then I don't really know what is. It works at every level. As a message about drugs, as we see the self destruction of four lives in a slow and excruciating demonstration of addiction. Also as an experimental film with weird editing and cinematography and a great score.
Also at acting, because we watch a clear descend into drug madness and all the changes the personalities of the characters go through as they fall.
It might be a bit over the top here and there, but it is mostly grounded.
One of the best decisions was not to pay too much attention at the "fun" the guys were getting with their hits. They skip the "fun part" that 90% of movies about the subject get so enamored to.
And with that, Darren Aronofsky created a masterpiece that is a punch in the face to Hollywood usual and glorifying portrayal of drugs... the punch goes also to our stomach.