You ever thought about using hard drugs? Here's your lesson

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2002)

Really good movies are hard to watch, this is one of them, the path to ruin of its characters is slowly drawn but unwaivering. These are not your stereotypical junkies, this are people that you would met on the street and give no second thought about what there true affliction is. It is a grim film, a bit slow, repetitious a some points, but it lets you experience total disaster in progress. Ellen Burstyn is outstanding as the lonely, apartment bounded New Yorker. This movie has as its central theme the destruction that drugs to individual and the people around them, but it is much, much more, it is about the frivolity of TV and the circus it has become, it is about the the social discarding of our senior citizens, about the insignificance of the individual (tinny figures filmed against big building). This movie is like an individual in a busy landscape, the subject is drugs and destruction, but the backdrop is just as interesting. Watch it, you'll be richer for it. 8/10.