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Movies about the Rec drug scene

^^^ spun out, yer i watched that last night as well.....

I think the scary thing of it was that it was a true storey, and to see how the drug trade included many young 13 year old kids, who took the revenge in there own hands.
 
"I've smoked, snorted, bashed, and killed. I'm no kid, I'm a man" the words from what looked like a 12 year old character from the city of god. Awesome movie, even with the subtitles.
 
Rubber_Duck said:
^^^ spun out, yer i watched that last night as well.....

I think the scary thing of it was that it was a true storey, and to see how the drug trade included many young 13 year old kids, who took the revenge in there own hands.
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psycosynthesis said:
^That's an awesome and film, enjoyable and harrowing at once.
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Yeah how good was the acting. i was really surprised. Had me captivated for the whole duration of the film. Really enjoyable film like u said psycosynthesis.
 
ruski said:
The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer is quite entertaining and has a reasonable plot to.
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Oh common ruski, I thought you had better taste in films that that! The movie is ~alright~ but it drags on a little. You're right in saying "reasonable". Nothing special, but worth a look (when you're really bored).

A Scanner Darkly looks good. Can't wait till it comes out.
Check out http://wip.warnerbros.com ... apparently America "looses the war on drugs"... imagine that. 8)
 
"sample people" is a great aussie rec drug movie. bit funny 2. its got pot heads, speed heads, ravers, fun with lsd's... good movie.
 
Yeah i just watched "City of God", i hired it out based on the above posts. Absolutely rivetting movie, so brutal and raw, i loved it!

There are lots of foreign films about the rec drug scene, they are the ones i like the most.
 
Has anyone seen Gridlock'd, starring Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth?
Definitley one of the more funny movies about heroin addiction!
 
the salton sea is a good one bout meth although not really bout the good recreation but more so a bit of both

sorry bout double posting the same thing ddidint see some one eles post that
 
essex boys - pretty lame brit movie, worth a watch
Blow had to be the best drug related movie ever, followed closely by trainspotting then requiem for a dream...

what shits me in Requiem for a Dream is the dude (jared leto) speaks in poems all the time.
 
DoctorNukem said:
"sample people" is a great aussie rec drug movie. bit funny 2. its got pot heads, speed heads, ravers, fun with lsd's... good movie.
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The one with Kylie Minogue? Think it was on TV a couple of weeks ago. The movies a bit corny. Another aussie movie along the same lines is One Perfect Day, that came out a couple years ago. Bit about the drug/rave culture in australia. thought it was lame though
 
Whats that movie with dawson from Dawsons creek in it. Hes in college, theres a coke dealer, a bunch of college kids, a gay guy... etc.
 
The Naked Lunch is a completely bizzare drug related movie. It's a bit hard to track down sometimes, but worth it.

Also Harvard Man is a really good movie, don't be put off by the fact that it has Buffy in it.
 
Formula 51 it's a pretty gun movie about pills.... about this guy who invents a new formula for a pill which is like 51 times more intense than ecstacy, 51 more times halluconagenic than acid, 51 times more ......etc etc check it out :p

Peace;)
 
Awesome article! :)

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May 19, 2006

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Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting.

Candy is just the next in a long line of drug films. Jack Marx hunts for the needles in the haystack.

It started with Human Wreckage (1923), Dorothy Davenport's ode to her film-star husband, Wallace Reid, who died a morphine addict that year. Imploring the audience at the end of the film to "please, help us!", Davenport made her message clear, but Hollywood, where drug abuse was rampant, sent out a clearer one - not a single print of the film survived the decade.

The experiment was repeated a few times. The Man Who Came Back (1924) and The Pace That Kills (1928) were harsh sermons in the evils of opium and cocaine that were both deemed worth remaking in the '30s. By then, the American audience was catching on, thanks to two sensational outings.

The first was Dwain Esper's Narcotic (1933), which promised to expose "the weird and revolting behaviour of addicts while under the sinister influence of drugs". It revealed little more than a silly party, where cackling society cuties snorted thick ropes of what could only have been sherbet - although there was at least one close-up injection shot, for the lass who declared: "It takes a needle for me to get a bang!"

The second was the famed Reefer Madness (1936), Louis J. Gasnier's stern lecture originally titled Tell Your Children - which folks evidently did, as the movie enjoyed a cult return as a late-night comedy in the '60s. The legacy of Reefer Madness is the enduring myth of the marijuana cigarette as the key to the vault of hard drugs.

Busy with a real war to fight, the US went through almost total drug-film detox in the 1940s. It wasn't until Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) that Hollywood scored another illicit hit, Frank Sinatra wincing in barbed ecstasy as unseen needles pricked unobserved arms.

A cautious morality followed, the only other worthy drug flicks of the decade being strictly biographical: Monkey on My Back (1957), about war hero-turned-morphine addict Barney Ross; and The Gene Krupa Story (1959), in which the baby-faced jazz drummer is tempted by a ridiculous, shades-wearing nightclub pusher who offers a joint and whispers, "Take a trip on the go-o-lden gateway!"

The extended trip of the 1960s had morality ordered to the back seat.

In The Connection (1962), a heroin docudrama is thwarted when the director suddenly downs tools and throws in his own arm for a debut hit. An apologetic camerawoman explains to viewers she'll do her best to keep the rest of the film under control.

Conrad Rooks's Chappaqua (1966) promises salvation for the film's young New York addict, but when he flies all the way to Europe for detoxification, a loony piece of casting has the doctor at the clinic played by William S. Burroughs.

The party of the decade ended with "one more for the road" indeed: 1969's Easy Rider, in which Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson smoked dope on camera and are seen at one point selling cocaine to music legend Phil Spector. That was a glamorisation never to be repeated quite so unapologetically.

Meanwhile, the Italians were indulging in their own dope genre - "spaghetti wasters", if you like - most notably Acid - Delirio dei Sensi (1968), which opens with the bloodthirsty spectacle of an idiot shaving on LSD. Then there's Roberto Loyola's unfathomable Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion (1970).

Things sobered up fast in the serious '70s with The Panic in Needle Park (1971). The film revisited those injection close-ups and drew attention to the little things that get hurt along the way - like the puppy that drowns while Bobby (Al Pacino) and Helen (Kitty Winn) are mainlining in the ferry toilets.

Blue Sunshine (1976) warned that the side effects of LSD were homicidal mania and premature baldness, while The French Connection (1971) suggested an even less tolerable prospect for addicts: your money is going to the French.

The sci-fi boom and accompanying special effects rendered drugs somewhat superfluous in the cinema of the '80s, and any references seemed more mysterious than instructive: Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America (1984) opens and closes with Noodles (Robert De Niro) off his face in an opium den, the sly inference being the entire film has been one huge hallucination. And in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Frank Booth (Hopper, again) doesn't even bother to address what is clearly a troublesome inhalant dependency.

But the '80s were saved by Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy (1989), the first film to dare suggest why drug addicts might do it in the first place.

By the '90s, drugs were rehabilitated, but with a morality as unpredictable as a speed dealer's dog. Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (1992) asked us to care about a cop who snorted coke while dropping his kids off at school.

Pulp Fiction (1994) resurrected heroin chic, but even the maverick Quentin Tarantino ensured that Vincent (John Travolta), the only one seen to purchase drugs, should be the only major character to meet a sticky end.

The Basketball Diaries (1995) was well intentioned, but betrayed by more cliches than Reefer Madness (the cherubic Leonardo DiCaprio not the least of them). Trainspotting (1996) featured an opening monologue so convincing, set against Iggy Pop's rollicking Lust for Life, that nothing director Danny Boyle could show us - the overdoses, the withdrawals, the dead baby - could change our minds about what we'd already been told: drugs are a rebellious barrel of laughs.

It was time for the big heavy stuff, and while Steven Soderbergh was probably convinced he'd deliver with 2000's Traffic, his lunch was well and truly cut by Darren Aronofsky's harrowing Requiem for a Dream that same year. David Edelstein's positive review in Slate nevertheless urged viewers to skip the last quarter of the film. "How much worse can it get?" he wrote. "You have no idea."

Three flicks that deserve special mention, in light of recent Australian experiences, are the "mule" films: Midnight Express (1978), the underrated Return to Paradise (1998) and the brilliant American-Columbia co-production, Maria Full of Grace (2004). One can imagine them being perused for ideas, with such titles as Schapelle and Back, High Noon for the Bali Nine and Catwalk to Oblivion: The Michelle Leslie Story.
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From Sydney Morning Herald
 
yeah was jus bout to say what about "Thirteen" rather like that movie. N its more realistic in the way that it doesn't end with her cleaned up and everything all better again. hey just thought anyone have an idea wot that stuff the guy gave her to drink would of been? he had dreds I think n called it Voodoo juice? Totally irrelevant but had made me wonder.
Also 'Kids' to a lesser extent but hmm more bout teen sex.
 
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