Gloriously weird

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2004)

Imagine you're trying to reinvent yourself for the better. Trying to lose a little weight, trying to make money to afford the good life. What if the attempt drove you into your own personal hell? That's pretty much what we see among the four main characters. Each turns to drugs for various reasons, from speed for weight loss to heroin for cash. Each character devolves before our very lives as their drug of choice takes hold of them. Not to spoil, but the movie ends on a down beat, in my opinion. However, this ending is the only type that's really suitable, unless you want to go into the cliché that everyone will turn their lives around and all will be well.
This movie made me rather uncomfortable, but I suppose that that was the whole point. To that regard, it was a very effective character study that could have been handled a lot worse, given the subject matter
9/10