My sober opinion.

Rating: 10/10 (12 November 2000)

This film left me absolutely drugged. I have waited for a week to write down my comments. I am beyond detox and now in recovery. I have worked as a nurse in detox centers. I have had significant relationships in my private life with alcoholics, speed addicts, marijuana addicts and heroin addicts. And, I know that this film taught me a powerful and direct lesson about how addiction feels to the addict. I was stunned by the film makers' abilities to convey the feeling of gradual distortion and loss of control, caused by chemical addiction. It was a very harrowing ride. This film (probably more than any other I have seen recently) blurs the boundary between representation of experience and experience itself. Very powerful. Very talented cast of consistent and compatible skill. Well written and well directed screenplay. Exquisitely integrated and affective use of sound and visual effects. A cut diamond with very sharp edges.