totally blown away, for many reasons

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2001)

I have found, that for anyone that sincerely has that deep appreciation for movies, for their art, for their messages, it takes a long time to find all the right words to describe this movie............ Right off the top, it's cinematography is spellbinding, joyful, and enlightening..........something truly to be appreciated........... the acting..........even more so............ellen burnstyn(?) is totally incredible........the fact that julia roberts won an Oscar over her is totally shameful...........
I do 100% agree with a previous comment that this movie is much more than just about drugs..........drugs were the downfall......the scapegoat...........but the real issue here was their dreams.......and fantasies.........and how low they already were with their own realities............that they were willing to do whatever it took............morally and knowingly wrong...........to somehow try to reach those dreams............however hopeless reality told them it would be................ this was desperate hope to the core..........to the extreme.......... this movie is to the extreme...........yet not so unreal either.........
it may make you sick to the stomach..........it may want you to turn a blind eye and deny............it may at least want to make you shake your head and say never.................. BUT...............deep..............DEEP................inside.....................it scares you to your very core.................... because you can FEEL how it can begin................................ and you can never let that go..............NO MATTER WHAT...........................
a totally incredible, fantastic, yet horrifying movie...............
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