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Best Portrayal of Drugs in Movies

I like Spun. I'm a fan of Judas Priest and it has Rob Halford in it as the porn shop guy, lol.

Trainspotting is good.
 
AbbeyLee said:
Did anyone mention The Wall?

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This is actually impossible for me to watch without crying. My brother ODed on heroin in 2014. He always loved rats.

"Mother" gets to me too because our's is a control freak. She's good in a lot of ways but I believe she contributed a lot to the way his story ended. "Mother's going to put all her fears into you".. He and I both suffered severe anxiety. We also got a taste for drugs and alcohol from the start -- 70s/80s babies who were given Phenergan and had our dummies dipped in Baileys.

He was on seven different psychoactive substances when he died -- mostly sedatives. Two different benzos, anti-depressants and various OTC things. My friend is a pharmacist and helped me understand the blood results in the Coroner's report. The ironic thing is there was zero alcohol, which has been my downfall.

What a way to go; A summer's night on the beach where we grew up, fishing. He was only 33yo though and never met his second son.

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Damn age-restrictions 🙄
 
simstim said:
I like Spun. I'm a fan of Judas Priest and it has Rob Halford in it as the porn shop guy, lol.

Trainspotting is good.
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Spun was awesome! I'm a fan of Judas Priest fan, too, but also of Mickey Rourke, who gives a great performance as The Cook— donating a crate of Mini-Thins to help out all those tired Russian truckers, lol. (Actually, the movie makes me kind of nostalgic for the early 2000s, as well. . . )

You can tell a real tweaker wrote the script. It was based on how he got addicted to meth while trying to film a documentary on users of the drug in Eugene, OR. during the mid-90s (which may be why the Volvo has OR plates despite being in CA). In an interview, I heard him say that Jonas Åkerlund added things to the script that he didn't particularly enjoy, like the pair of goofy cops.

Sadly, I don't think the guy has gotten another screenplay produced in the 20 years following Spun . . . IIRC, though, he did finally manage to quit meth & has been sober for a few years.
 
JTemperance said:
Spun was awesome! I'm a fan of Judas Priest fan, too, but also of Mickey Rourke, who gives a great performance as The Cook— donating a crate of Mini-Thins to help out all those tired Russian truckers, lol. (Actually, the movie makes me kind of nostalgic for the early 2000s, as well. . . )

You can tell a real tweaker wrote the script. It was based on how he got addicted to meth while trying to film a documentary on users of the drug in Eugene, OR. during the mid-90s (which may be why the Volvo has OR plates despite being in CA). In an interview, I heard him say that Jonas Åkerlund added things to the script that he didn't particularly enjoy, like the pair of goofy cops.

Sadly, I don't think the guy has gotten another screenplay produced in the 20 years following Spun . . . IIRC, though, he did finally manage to quit meth & has been sober for a few years.
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lived in eugene for a good while
 
AbbeyLee said:
Requiem always comes to mind but I don’t think it’s a great film. Good work mentioning The Basketball Diaries — proof that DiCaprio existed before Titanic (and can act)!

But thank you for including Leaving Las Vegas. As an alcoholic first and foremost I loved this film.


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Well seeing as I just discovered the Australian govt has cracked down on Kratom imports in the last couple of years, let's take a look at a scene from Leaving Las Vegas.

I never got quite this bad with the twitching, but close. This scene is realistic. And alcohol is viewed as a harmless drug.

How good is the Australian Fossil-Fuelled Police State? 😡☠️

 
simstim said:
Brittany Murphy is in it. She's dead now. Shame she was hot!
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Oh damn, she played the weirdo juvie cellmate in Freeway (1996): a small part but a really distinctive & memorable one for anybody who's seen the movie. I stumbled across Freeway a few years ago & it quickly became one of my all-time favorites (& completely transformed my impression of Reese Witherspoon, FWIW). Highly recommended, with drugs portrayed incidentally.

Plot-wise, the movie is a very dark retelling of Red Robin Hood set along the freeway system. A girl escapes from state custody after her mother & stepfather are arrested on prostitution/drug charges and tries to hitch-hike from San Bernardino to her grandma's house in Stockton. There's some biting (& hilarious) social criticism along the way, but it never gets too earnest or preachy.

Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999), ostensibly the sequel, is totally "out-there" – far in excess of the original Freeway (deemed to be in borderline "bad taste" itself). That makes it worth watching, IMO, even if the 1996 film is better-made. Starring a teenaged Natasha Lyonne (real-life former heroin addict), plus Vincent Gallo (in an unforgettably creepy role toward the film's end).
 
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jasperkent said:
But my favorite scene(s) of drug use?
Pulp Fiction, wherein Vincent shoots heroin and is then driving high. I can almost feel it, for real.
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That always resonated with me as one of the "realest" scenes in a movie to show what it's actually like to be high on heroin (or opiates in general) – just the mellowness & tranquility of it, still able to function in the world yet 100% self-content, wrapped up in a warm blanket inside yourself. . .

I was reading Shaun Ryder's autobiography/memoir, Twisting My Melon, and he mentions it as well:
'Twisting My Melon' pg. 263 said:
I also thought Pulp Fiction was a pretty realistic depiction of the effects of heroin. The scene where John Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, has just seen his dealer and is driving down the road like he's floating in his own little bubble was pretty true to how I felt when I was on heroin. Trainspotting was pretty real, but that was more the dirty digging end of the scene.​
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jasperkent said:
I've definitely been there several times. Very realistic. It ain't pretty.
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It's fkn ugly. It plays so much havoc with my digestive system I don't even want to go into detail.

Spoiler, but he does drink himself to death. That looks realistic, too. I've had two bouts of acute Pancreatitis and it's absolutely brutal. All they can do to treat it is complete nil by mouth for a week and IV or intramuscular morphine.

The liver is more forgiving, but once it's damaged the effects are revolting. Louis Theroux did a good doco on alcoholism.. I can't find a trailer but it's called Drinking to Oblivion.

I see there's one on drugs too

 
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