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I did not read the books this was based on and didn't even know it was based on real characters going in. I do very much know about the world of drug addiction and there are many parts of this movie that ring true, I have lived them. it's because of this that I almost find this movie offensive in it's treatment of a very real and serious issue. Shot beautifully, with scenes of sunlight streaming through trees and waves crashing and art work and beautiful homes, was any of this appropriate to a movie about a young man's descent into serious drug addiction ? Even worse, instead of real dialogue there were countless scenes with no dialogue but loud music, as if this really were a music video and not a movie. The entire film is kind of disjointed, as if the people behind it could not decide who or what to concentrate on , making the film at times confusing. This story required a straight and gritty and realistic telling, instead it got just the opposite. Carell and Chalamet seem to be trying their best , but failed, I never believed them as their characters and while Chalamet seemed to be doing better as the addict, he never looked like anything less then a thin male model with gorgeous hair. Hollywood nowadays seems to destroy every story it touches. From beginning to end this movie hit every wrong note.
score 2/10
hampersnow-28905 14 January 2019
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