very good highly recommended

Rating: 9/10 (31 March 2015)

Best film about drug addiction to grace our screens. Brutal, harrowing and unflinching. Stylistically brilliant. Ellen Burstyn's performance is stunning. Highly recommended.I have never, ever felt as disturbed, shocked or affected by a film as this. Showing the consequences of indulging yourself with drugs has never came more to view than in this film. The characters fall succumb to their addiction and fail to leave them, having them imprisoned, restrained within an insane asylum, and end up as an amputee in a hospital, only to be waiting to be carried to prison shortly after. If there was a movie to change people's views and thoughts on urban life, this would definitely be it. The acting was very good, the film has some familiar faces which aren't usually in these movies but seeing them in a different genre was very nice.