Various people have mischaracterized this film over the years as perhaps too violent or too dark, or depressing, or any one of a number of negative sounding appraisals--most of which seem to ignore certain key facts about this movie: the writing, acting, story line, direction, and everything that makes for a fine picture, are all stellar. All the potrayals are about as close to perfect as it's possible to get. The movie's well-paced. Dialogue is very honest and true to the story. The viewer can see how these situations could very well have arisen in real life, and been played out in real life, just as they are on the screen. Of course, there is also a very important moral to the story: you get involved with a substance that's extremely virulent, and try to distribute the stuff for profit, you're liable to find yourself in extreme trouble. Crazed nutcases are liable to pop up out of the woodwork, and try to take the heroin away, so that THEY can make money and/or shoot up the profits. Competition for the substance can become downright nasty. What we learn when we watch a film like this is that it's extremely advisable to steer clear of substances like this, and stay away from the kinds of people who engage in behavior like that exhibited in the film. You play with fire, and eventually you get burnt. Interesting that at the tail end of the picture, the heroin gets thrown out into the sand--finally someone uses his head. And yet, amazingly, at the very end, another character comes running up to the smack in the sand, and actually tries to recover some of it with his hands. Some people just never learn.
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