Thick_as_a_Planck
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Well, It's just after 3am and I've just finished watching 'Human Traffic' on FilmFour. I have to say I'd forgotten just how perfectly that film captures drug culture. It really has got everything... Starting in the Club scenes when they've taken their pills, the dancing, the hugs, the empathy, the pleasure. Then on through a series of fantastic five-mniute sequences, all perfectly capturing the thing they want to convey... There's the stoned conversation in the kitchen when two of the cast finally stumble upon the 'true meaning' of Star Wars (If you're interested - "Darth wants to control outer space, while Yoda desires only inner space"). And for a full minute both of them look completely stunned with themselves, the most profound thing they've ever heard: the second guy puts his arm around the first and congradulates him, then the first says, (with stunning sincerity and shaking his own head in disbelief) "...sometimes I just don't know where I get it from..."
Then there's the lying session when Lu goes to her Aunty and Uncle's the next day for dinner. She has a whole conversation while the true 'translation' appears in subtitles at the bottom. In response to her Aunt's question about whether Jip had stayed off the drink to drive them home safely, her reply is "No Aunty, he doesn't drink" And underneath we have "No Aunty, he only takes class-As." etc. etc.
Then there is the scene when Lee smokes too much and gets paranoid - leading to a physical conversation with 'reality' (played by Jo Brand, I think).
And finally, the most depressing scene of all, when in the pub at the very end. Lee decides he is finally off the drugs, and announces this to all his friends around the table. But none of them believe him - they just laugh. He gets more and more earnest, and they just laugh harder and harder, and take the piss more and more. Finally someone says they're going for the next round, and asks Lee what he wants - realising he can't win, he finally relents and jokes 'pint of vodka, please, and some Maltesers'. And that's it - you can see him carrying on like it forever, just to fit in. The whole film is damn funny but also very, very depressing.
It almost makes me want to stop drugs....
...yeah, well, maybe not.
Then there's the lying session when Lu goes to her Aunty and Uncle's the next day for dinner. She has a whole conversation while the true 'translation' appears in subtitles at the bottom. In response to her Aunt's question about whether Jip had stayed off the drink to drive them home safely, her reply is "No Aunty, he doesn't drink" And underneath we have "No Aunty, he only takes class-As." etc. etc.
Then there is the scene when Lee smokes too much and gets paranoid - leading to a physical conversation with 'reality' (played by Jo Brand, I think).
And finally, the most depressing scene of all, when in the pub at the very end. Lee decides he is finally off the drugs, and announces this to all his friends around the table. But none of them believe him - they just laugh. He gets more and more earnest, and they just laugh harder and harder, and take the piss more and more. Finally someone says they're going for the next round, and asks Lee what he wants - realising he can't win, he finally relents and jokes 'pint of vodka, please, and some Maltesers'. And that's it - you can see him carrying on like it forever, just to fit in. The whole film is damn funny but also very, very depressing.
It almost makes me want to stop drugs....
...yeah, well, maybe not.
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