It is the story of a girl, Sherry Swanson, a grade A, run of the mill, textbook New Jersey Junkie.
She has a 4 year old daughter who she barely knows becuz she spend the past 3 years in state prison on a robbery rap.
Now shes out....And life...Well....I guess life just kinda went on without her.
The movie follows the week or two after she gets outta lockdown.
I aint gonna say too much here becuz its just worth seeing on its own.
Maybe its just so good to me, becuz i KNOW her....not necessarily that girl in the movie, but a million just like her. fucking up. making mistakes. living in this fucked up shitty state with the fuckin shit just around the corner 24/7, where you cant be anywhere in the whole state thats more than 1 hour away from top grade heroin and coke and weed and.........
The shit was raw and real as fuck, and i usually dont like drama movies that aint about laughing, becuz usually i see movies to chill out and be entertained not get some heavy shit layed down on my shoulders for a hour and a half. but this was a different story.
Some snooty critics played the "Its cliched, whoo hoo, a girl is addicted to drugs, never seen that one before!" But they maybe aint realize that to them its just another movie, but to someone from here, who been thru that thing, man, its as real as it gets. and it dont matter if its a cliche, because LIFE is a cliche, and that character is a cliche, but not becuz they need her to be for the movie, but because shes just living her life and shes REAL. and thats the sadness of it.
If you like non preaching drug movies...Ones that actually dont try and make any "point" at all but just serve as a window into another persons life, with no drama, no crazy cinematography tricks, not cutting edge or mysterious or fast paced or thrilling, not shocking or controversial or upbeat or anything but just a real live witness of another persons life......Well then i think this is a movie you would love to watch.
I never seen a movie related to drugs like this that dont glamorize, or demonize drugs. it dont hype them up or play them down. a film where they aint the fun of the rockstars, they are the struggle of the average person that is walking past you in the supermarket that you dont even notice. and the best part of the movie is kind of how it shows how , when youre going thru it, how REAL and LIVE it is to you, becuz its your life, and how the rest of the world just dont seem to notice the urgentness of whats going on with you, how it just keeps moving along like it dont even matter. how to you its a huge tidal wave, and the ones around you cant possibly see inside, they just feel the little earth shake from 3,000 miles away.
Well, ill stop talkin to myself about it til someone else responds.
Anyone else see it? What do yall think?
She has a 4 year old daughter who she barely knows becuz she spend the past 3 years in state prison on a robbery rap.
Now shes out....And life...Well....I guess life just kinda went on without her.
The movie follows the week or two after she gets outta lockdown.
I aint gonna say too much here becuz its just worth seeing on its own.
Maybe its just so good to me, becuz i KNOW her....not necessarily that girl in the movie, but a million just like her. fucking up. making mistakes. living in this fucked up shitty state with the fuckin shit just around the corner 24/7, where you cant be anywhere in the whole state thats more than 1 hour away from top grade heroin and coke and weed and.........
The shit was raw and real as fuck, and i usually dont like drama movies that aint about laughing, becuz usually i see movies to chill out and be entertained not get some heavy shit layed down on my shoulders for a hour and a half. but this was a different story.
Some snooty critics played the "Its cliched, whoo hoo, a girl is addicted to drugs, never seen that one before!" But they maybe aint realize that to them its just another movie, but to someone from here, who been thru that thing, man, its as real as it gets. and it dont matter if its a cliche, because LIFE is a cliche, and that character is a cliche, but not becuz they need her to be for the movie, but because shes just living her life and shes REAL. and thats the sadness of it.
If you like non preaching drug movies...Ones that actually dont try and make any "point" at all but just serve as a window into another persons life, with no drama, no crazy cinematography tricks, not cutting edge or mysterious or fast paced or thrilling, not shocking or controversial or upbeat or anything but just a real live witness of another persons life......Well then i think this is a movie you would love to watch.
I never seen a movie related to drugs like this that dont glamorize, or demonize drugs. it dont hype them up or play them down. a film where they aint the fun of the rockstars, they are the struggle of the average person that is walking past you in the supermarket that you dont even notice. and the best part of the movie is kind of how it shows how , when youre going thru it, how REAL and LIVE it is to you, becuz its your life, and how the rest of the world just dont seem to notice the urgentness of whats going on with you, how it just keeps moving along like it dont even matter. how to you its a huge tidal wave, and the ones around you cant possibly see inside, they just feel the little earth shake from 3,000 miles away.
Well, ill stop talkin to myself about it til someone else responds.
Anyone else see it? What do yall think?
Maggie too. 
