[Borges]

Uh, ok. I guess they should have made a fun movie about drug addiction? It's one of the best movies of the past ten years.

No but they could have had something new to say about it. That movie reeked of its source...an overwrought novel written shortly after the 60s ended. A 'Utopian dreams are gone and now look where we are' sort of thing. The characters were thin and had no chance. It was like watching a 2 hour march to the scaffold.

[Darkwolf377]

" It was like watching a 2 hour march to the scaffold."

Yeah--that was the whole point.

As for it not saying anything new about the subject, I must have missed all those dozens of movies that depict drug addiction in aging women with no lives. I've never seen the horrors of addictions depicted so believably.

If you have a list of all these other movies about the same subject, I'm all eyes.

BTW, being faithful to the source material is a good thing. I prefered the movie's actual depiction of the situations to the book, which was even worse than Last Exit to Brooklyn.