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Homeless guy

posted 11 years ago by gleeson77
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In my opinion he was selling the prozac and trying to get his life back together. Not actually taking the drug himself, not sure if I read it write what do other people think?

[–] InsecureNeuroticControlFreak 11 years ago

I thought he was selling it too, but everyone I've watched it with has told me he was taking it.

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[–] usapon 11 years ago

He was taking it, hence he was getting better and was able to secure a job interview. If you're selling drugs you don't need a job!!

[–] InsecureNeuroticControlFreak 11 years ago

Touche. But either way you take it, it's a funny scene.

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[–] gleeson77 11 years ago

The reason I saw it like that is this, he threw away like 8-12 boxes. Now say all those boxes had around 1 months worth of Prozac, that means at the first dumping the homeless guy would of had 8-12 months supply of the drug. If he he took it too quickly he could have ended up overdosing. Now I think Jamie was making trips there once every either week, fortnight or month, if her was going once every 4-6 months the homeless guy would have to go and wait all day every day for another stash after-all he didn't know Jamie's schedule Now say he was selling them its more logical because being homeless there is a chance you may know some shady characters some being drug dealers who would sell the Prozac at a profit or to use with other drugs.

[–] mr_bickle_the_pickle 11 years ago

I think he most likely sold most of them because he would have needed the money for the new clothes and the haircut when he goes out on his job interview, but he was probably taking some for himself as well.

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[–] Thrashman88 8 years ago

The scene with the homeless guy was supposed to be ironic: Jaime was throwing Prozac away because he did not want the doctor to prescribe it, only Zoloft, arguing that Zoloft was a superior antidepressant. Supposedly, Jaime did this many times over an unspecified period of time in which the homeless guy began taking Prozac, thus he started to come out of his depression, proving that the medicine worked. In no way I understood that the homeless guy was selling the samples, but I guess some might get it that way. The irony is that, while Jaime tried to convince doctors that Zoloft was a more effective antidepressant, we actually see that Prozac is just as good if not better than Zoloft (as evidenced in the homeless guy recovery).

In reality, both antidepressants are quite good, with Zoloft becoming a blockbuster drug for Pfizer ending Prozac's reign in antidepression.

[–] huwdj 7 years ago

I assumed he was selling until the line about a job interview - perhaps a bit of both. I also half expected the guy to turn up later in the film at some point where could help Jamie out. There was a kind of logic to that - at least in my head.