I wanted to like this movie...
I liked the whole idea of the "intervention" episode but this was a really bad generic look at a heroin abuser..a real heroin addict is a hell of a lot scarier than that demon girl..They didn't capture the horrors of heroin.. Not even close.. So far off it made the whole demon seem like a joke...
She's all beautiful with no marks on her arms, perfect skin lol bad portrayal I agree
sharethe funniest part of the portrayal is the withdrawal: toss and turn a little bit during night one of the detox, then you're good to go!
sharethey really should of researched what opiate withdrawal is like before putting out that ridiculous characterization. Theres a reason shows like Intervention skip 90 days before showing the cleaned up version of the addict, because it is absolute hell. A nightmare of insanity and pain you can never escape where every minute seems like hours... Thats the true horror..
shareAdmittedly it was a pretty weak portrayal of what opiate (and benzo) addiction is like, but... I will give them the fact that they did mention a couple of times that Carson had just started using quite shortly before that, like no more then a few months... "It seems like she changed literally overnight!" is said more than once.. And she was mostly using mom and dad's guilt money to get high.. Hell, they were letting her shoot up in the house knowingly! So it's not exactly like she was out on the streets or rock bottom yet, not even close. I was able to control & conceal my *beep* pretty well in the beginning, for the first year or thereabouts and through my first detox, when I was not much older than the girl portrayed in the film. Things got much worse later, but then again you always go back until drugs have literally destroyed everything in your life..
But yeah, I'm willing to let the depiction slide considering A. She had only been at this a couple months and was being heavily enabled by her parents.. and B. It's a possession story done "Intervention" style. She did the downers cuz they kept the demon inside her from coming out. Obviously to an extent this is a metaphor but it's also very literal in Carson's case lol.
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This was okay with me. The character wasn't in the throes of hardcore addiction. She'd been self-medicating to keep her demon under control, with four different drugs at different times, heroin being only one of them. Her body had grown somewhat dependent, naturally enough, but it wasn't like someone using because they were addicted. I also thought it was implied that some days had passed before she began to feel better.
Dumb movie on the whole, but this part, I didn't have a problem with.
"This is a problem that requires two minds with but a single malt."