Nothing like a few hundred volts to the temples to cure what ails you.

Shawn

This movie shows us a small segment of our drug obsessed populous- from the use of illegal and prescribed drugs. The focus is on the constant need for more, and the routine and short lived "fix" of the drugs. We meet a mother, her son, his friend and girlfriend. All are mixed up in pill popping, powder sniffing, needle injecting, and smoke puffing. The movie adopts their drug induced demeanor, characterized by a dark, fuzzy look, with quick flashes of close-ups with over-exaggerated sound effects, split screen photography, and an overall accelerated perception of time. Movie becomes emotionally powerful when the individuals reach their drugged-out downfalls. End of the movie contains the most disturbing scene I've seen in a while that shows pure degradation, pain, and sadness felt by all those involved. One of those few movies that laid waste to my ordinary day and made me ponder the ideas presented by it afterwards. Not for the timid of heart.

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