Everything that DARE warned you about

Rating: 1/10 (17 April 2003)

Oh how I loathe this movie! The first thing that came to mind after watching it was the two hours I wasted hoping something would happen. The second thing that came to mind was the line in Trainspotting "people always focus on the misery, death, and despair around heroin, and that's not to be ignored. But what they forget is the pleasure of it. After all we're not f**king stupid" This movie does seem to forget the pleasure and just assume that it's stupid charecters are REALLY stupid. I have no pity for any of the charecters who never seem to question their own motives (a quality I quite liked in Renton). The charecter played by Ellen Burstyn is especially nauseating. It took all my mental faculties to prevent myself from fast forwarding through her highly annoying parts. How can anyone feel sorry for a diet crazy, TV addict? And I may not know much about diet pills, but I seriously doubt that you begin to visually hallucinate from them.

I guess what I'm really trying to get at is how is this anti-drug propaganda any diffrent from the infamous and laughable drug propaganda of the late 1930's????? I'm reminded of Reefer Madness and The Devil's Harvest. While those movies deal with marajuana which has arguably never harmed anyone, and this movie deals with heroin which has helped ruin or at least sidetrack many people's lives, the blame game in either movie sounds the same. Since human beings have a free will and drugs do not, the shift of blame should fall entirely on the humans and their choices. The unanswerable question for the charecters in this lame movie is this: Drugs or otherwise, if these people were this stupid to have gotten themselves in these situations, how far would they have gone anyways??????????????
I'm so disappointed by Darren Aronofsky. I really enjoyed Pi.