FILM: Candy

[Wizzle]

I wouldn't compare the two.. Entirely different genres. Drama and some kind of horror.

 

[k.kat]

Yeah seen it, liked it

 

[sparkleandfade]

I loved Candy - it was sad, but the whole thing was so mesmerizing. I quickly fell in love with Abbie Cornish's acting too - I thought she was great.

 

[L2R]

using the search function is good for the environment
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=203071&highlight=candy

 

[SDforever420]

anyone read the book or am i the only one

 

[captainballs]

Read the book in high school, was wary to watch the movie but still watched it. There's no magical quality that makes movies pale in comparison to their literary counterparts; it's a problem just as natural as the difference between experiencing something in real life and playing a video game. The book contains an immeasurable greater amount of moments that make you think. There's no time limit to stop and reflect on an idea in a book, whereas the purpose of a movie is to contrive and concentrate little bits and pieces of someone else's ideas about what made the book great into a bombardment of overdramatic scenes - sometimes with great effect, but not in "Candy."

 

[Fever2010]

candy is better, but requiem is good too. heath did an excellent job playing a junkie.

 

[GrailKing]

the book was amazing. a subject very close the writers heart.

 

[Rated E]

And one last question, in the movie Heath Ledgers character says "for every ten years someone a junkie, they spend seven of them waiting" I just can't see how that's true, any thoughts?

I believe he's referring to the fact that when you're a junkie, you often have to wait around a lot for dealers or drugs.

Also, in the more poetic sense, it refers to how the lows outweigh the highs for a junkie. A small portion of the time is enjoyably spent high, while 70% of the time is just waiting for the next high. Or, it refers to the junkie's fixation with their chosen high. So fixated are they on the drug, that when they aren't on it, they spend most of their time waiting for it and thinking about it.