Simplistic and too Graphic

Rating: 5/10 (17 September 2002)

I liked several things about it but overall it is not the greatest movie. Pi was much better and subtler.
First what I liked: acting was good particularly The Mother did a superb job. I liked the depiction of getting brainwashed after watching all these game shows. Maybe if they developed it more and removed some other stuff the movie would have been deeper and not so overloaded.
The movie was too simplistic. It sounded like a lesson for kids: look at all these terrible things that happened to these PRETTY people when they used drugs.
While being simplistic may be OK, there were too many cheap shock effects. The movie was little about emotions, mostly about graphic images. Over dramatized and overloaded. I would not watch it again.
5 out of 10.