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What movie(s) portray heroin correctly?

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I've seen a lot of movies that have heroin in them. Most of them (Requiem For A Dream, Pulp Fiction, Nowhere) show heroin users that function normally while on heroin. Others (Trainspotting) show heroin users that just lay there while on heroin. So which is more true to the life of a heroin user?
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I've never done heroin myself, but I think I can safely say that I don't think any box office movie is going to portray every facet of heroin correctly. Maybe a history channel documentary, but definately not a movie. Thats like asking if those "Dont do drug" commercials are correct. (The one with that guy shaking on the bathroom floor - if drugs did that all the time I don't think people would use them).
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I've never done heroin but I've known a few heroin "addicts" and I think that the Basketball Diaries with leonardo is probally the best look into the life of a heroin user. it also made me think Leonardo Dicaprio is a good actor and that made me wanna cry.
 
All the heroin movies movies I have seen have some accurate parts, some innacurate parts, and some parts that apply to some but not all users...
As for the question about how people function on heroin - depends on the dose and the way you react.. I get a fair amount of energy and function normally, some don't...
Watch movies for entertainment, not factual information..
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defintely basketball diaries..........wow it is almost to real to me and some friends...... there is a underground movie out there called---- A brown night....try and find it, it is great!!!!!!
 
I thought permanent midnight was pretty acurate. Its based on the truth, so thats probably why. If you watch it while baked, you pick up all of these little things that Ben Stiler does that make it so real, but maybe thats just the nature of the bud.
 
I think "Requiem for a Dream" best shows how dope can control every aspect of your life. A heroin high is something that is tough to get across to the uninitiated. But here's a question for ya. Why the hell do their eyes dilate after shooting up? H pins your eyes. This has drove me crazy. My theory is that (to my knowledge) they never do mention the name of the shit they're shootin', so the director is trying to show other drugs you inject can screw you over, not just Heroin. If it was an error and the filmmakers thought Heroin dilates your pupils, that's pretty careless.
 
I'm not really looking for factual information. You can't really look for factual information on this anyway. Watching a movie about what heroin does to people and reading facts about herion aren't the same.
About Requiem, they do called it "skag" in the movie.
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Requiem for a Dream is lame and innacurate.
Why the fuck was his mother hallucinating on speed?
 
nickc - do enough speed and you too can hallucinate...
imo most movies tended to exaggerate the rush - since most directors haven't done smack. it is often portrayed as the be all and end all life-altering pleasure from the first hit onwards, which isn't really the case.
i get fairly energetic, i can move and think and talk... but fuck, my legs feel all warm and funny and i really enjoy lying down. so go figure =0)
peace
 
eroc
"Why the hell do their eyes dilate after shooting up? H pins your eyes. This has drove me crazy"
Me to. I've was going to ask the same question in this thread until I saw you posted it.
fraxflame,
"hey were banging coke in Requiem."
I don't know about that. They didn't look/act like people banging coke.
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In requiem the mother is hooked on opiates I beleive
At least thats what her son called them...
 
Phreex- I have to disagree, I think SOME movies are a great medium for GOOD information to be spread. You don't JUST watch movies for fun, movies can be educational? And for requiem for a dream, I thought it was a peice..
 
I really like the scene in Pulp fiction when Vincents getting high.the cruising in the car bit, his voice dropped a bit, i thought it was all pretty acurate.
The dealer was classic too, i've had a few JUST like that, complete with the bitching girfriend in the background.
that requiem for a dream thing has been bugging me for 6 months, I wanna write to the director & ask him whats up with that, there must be an explanation
 
i don't remember the movie too well, but in the book requiem, it's clearly heroin. also, the mother isn't on opiates, she's on speed. she stops eating, her teeth grind, she's all jumpy, and if you went on a crazy binge like she does (popping all four of her pills at once, washing it down with several pots of coffee) you'd end up hallucinating too.
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Let us alone. What pleasure can we have
To war with evil? Is there any peace
In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
All things have rest, and ripen towards the grave
In silence- ripen, fall, and cease:
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
--Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters
 
Yeah - the mum in Requiem is on speed. The son calls them "uppers" - which are perscription speed - used to be perscribed widely for women to keep their weight down, and still are now by dodgy doctore like the one in the movie.
And I personally have hallucinated on speed. But i don't think it was the speed, more the fact that i hadn't slep nor eaten for three days and my brain was mush.
LJ
 
Requiem was an example of a hollywood heroin movie - some parts were true, other were not, but it was for entertainment... yes, they were (supposed to be) using heroin, their pupils got big because, well, thats what the public asscoiates with drug use - big pupils.. constricting would have only confused people..
I have yet to find a movie that is dead on accurate - namely because you have to fluff up a movie a bit.. a 100% accurate movie about heroin users wouldn't be that much fun for your average audience...
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"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is: 'What are they in a position to do about it?'" (William S. Burroughs)
 
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