Product: Jesus' Son [VHS]
Rating: 3.0
A SURREAL SOMBER GLOOMY EXPERIENCE!!
"Jesus' Son" A look into the treacherous desperate life of a drug addict living from one fix to the next, set in the early 70's, We follow FH a man in his twenties wondering from place to place sometimes with other junkie friends, other times with his girlfriend Michelle who is also into drugs, making horrendous awful life choices, and behaving nearly like a gentle kind and naive little kid without any rationalization hanging around with a group of unlikable characters that makes you loose interest in a hurry. Not able to hold a job he's forced into petty theft to make ends meet"Jesus' Son" Adapted to the Screen from a book of short stories. A Film funny at times but mostly a surreal, somber, gloomy experience about human beings at their lowest, also it's a story of hope, dreams, desire, tragedy and expectation of fulfillment towards the end. FH (Billy Crudup) narrates most of the Movie going back and forth occasionally when he feels he's forgotten something making the Film move at a Comatose Pace, I think that's the intention of the Director to make the audience confused and lost, as Fh does!Not a Film for everyone...Sex, Graphic Language, Drugs. Although the last forty minutes of the Film made it for me. I could see light at the end of the tunnel as FH almost redeems himself finding employment at an interesting place and discovering himself, as he puts it..."I'M TAKING A NEW APPROACH TO LIFE, UM...I'M NOT STEALING I'M TRYING TO SEE EACH TASK THROUGH TO IT'S END!"