Well, a couple of months later this fine film has been shown on Channel 4 in the UK in the middle of the night, so I watched it on video. But with the luxury of being able to rewind to see the crucial moments again...
i) I didn't have to rewind to be convinced that Greta's "bad drugs/suicide attempt overdose" in the bath was a big fake - it was obviously so even on a first viewing. So it is kind of academic whether or not these are the same batch of drugs that later kill Lucy, or not.
ii) Nevertheless, it is psychologically interesting that Lucy only *pretends* to throw the drugs out of the car to convince Syd that she can go straight. The whole sequence is beautifully choreographed - a sudden jerk of the arm to look like a throw, followed by the arm extended straight out of the car window as if holding stuff waiting to drop it, then finally a "winding it in" motion when Lucy decides to hold on to it after all.
iii) Lucy's death is probably attritutable to no more than the illusion that after coming off drugs for a while that you can carry on at the same level as before. Lucy snorts one line, hestitates, then snorts another (a huge fat one incidentally and Greta only did one...). In normal circumstances, not an overdose - after going straight for a while, who knows?
iv) I think the receptionist at the end is just being snotty without knowing how evil she is really being: "Oh hey, the issue came back" means any (or all) of "Didn't know *you* were a lesbian", "This is the issue you had to *beep* the photographer for" or "Mmm, nice tits"
John L
PS And how "L Word" is it? I know LC wrote one episode, but even the basic plot is the same, plus the art world setting. Looks like a major inspiration to me.
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