Great movie about drug abuse.

Rating: 9/10 (7 May 2008)

This is a great movie about drug abuse. A true drama. While watching this movie you will learn a lot about the life of drug addicts. It's a really good drama. There are times that will bring tears to your eyes from laughter and other times, tears of sorrow.
This is a pretty graphic movie but it is very good. Depicts the life of a drug addict and his struggle plus his good times with heroine. This movie really pulls you in. The dialog, the situations, it's all thought out very well and very realistically. It shows the effects of withdrawal from heroine and the chemical side effects due to rapid withdrawal; since heroine gives you a chemical dependency it's dangerous to just stop taking it.
The acting in the movie is very good. Ian McGregor is overall a good actor and he didn't come up short in any scene of the movie. Facial expressions, reactions etc were all very natural.
Overall this was a pretty good movie that could teach you a lot if you take the serious parts seriously and not get convinced that this is a comedy despite some pretty funny scenes. It's a drama about drugs and is a very powerful movie with an intense plot squeezed into less than 90 minutes so it won't bore you either.