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most depressing + hopeless look at heroin ever

posted 11 years ago by minehead
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this is just the repetition of killing time in a claustrophobic junkie hell, maybe that's the overall msg, smack=living death. boring junkies talking about nothing of interest and coughing their lungs up & shooting in between smatterings of pedestrian language, it's just too long, the same hopeless and monotonous life that these ppl are trapped in is completely understood in the first 30 minutes...3 hours just reinforces the utter waste of life they live. should scare anyone away from junk.

[–] Filler_Killer 9 years ago

I believe that is one of the messages or that the movie can be interpreted that way. These junkheads come across those pedestrian, meaningless talks everyday and you've been submitted to only three hours of their lives. Kind of makes you think about themselves and what they have to deal with constantly. These people shouldn't be addicted to that crap, it's a sign that the revolution failed. Pedro Costa has applied a Kino-fist, disguised as a Kino-glaz, that I'd like think it made the country aware of its short-comings and deficiencies at the time (Portugal's take on drug treament, prevention and reintegration, that has been praised globally, developed shortly after this movie was put out, in 2001). Depressing, yet still powerful, socially-aware, and therefore relevant film-making.

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