I’ll start with what I think is the most accurate depiction of being strung out
Trainspotting makes being a heroin addict look way too fun, I'm sure it and fear and loathing have ruined many many lives
As a recovering alcoholic with 20 years of severe alcoholism, 8 Crazy Nights felt pretty close for me if you take away all the cartoon goofyness.
>>216003795less than zero, drugstore cowboy, requiem for a dream, leaving las vegas (alcohol is a drug), wonderland
also permanent midnight
>>216003795Pic related and of course Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
>>216004030Forgot the pic
Kino here, and I believe Al Pacino's first movie.
>>216003795Gridlock'd
This one's my favorite. Nothing unexpected happens in it, but it's got this engrossing atmosphere that feels like sinking. I also recommend the Blackout, which is about alcoholism.
Alcohol
>>216003823I thought the same about LLV. Nick Mullen had a quote about how it’s supposed to be a cautionary tale but if you’re an alcoholic it’s like “woah….hes so cool”
>>216004121Well yeah, if you're an alcoholic, someone who can put their pants on in one go is a superhero.
Oslo, August 31stSubmarino (2010)
Less Than ZeroDrugstore CowboyThe Basketball Diaries has some ok scenes about addiction some of the coke scenes in Goodfellas and Blow are very accurate The Corner is a six episode HBO show about drug addicts in Baltimore in the early 90s. It's the show David Simon did right before The Wire and has much of the same cast. It was pretty much a test run for The WIre but entirely focused on the addicts.
>>216003795>the most accurate depiction of being strung outMy vote goes to The French Connection II
>>216004121How the fuck is he cool, he’s basically unable to function and is just slowly killing himself because he knows booze has ruined his life and falls in love with a hooker and then dies
>>216004380Exactly.
>>216004386I could see someone saying it romanticizes the tragedy of extreme alcoholism but in no way is he portrayed as cool, the movie almost entirely shows alcoholism at its worst
>>216004121Also the author of the book its based on blew his head off immediately when they called him to tell him his book was being adapted
Is Cage on something in Bringing Out the Dead? Because that would be another good pick.
>>216004044see this one is just disingenuous because it never shows the girl getting dpd by her dealer and boyfriend like most meth girls actually do
>>216004412It definitely doesn’t show alcoholism at its worse. When you die from booze you’re usually bloated, in severe pain, yellow, can’t move, bleeding out of all your holes, it’s horrific.
>>216003795The ending of the book is so depressingJust spends page after page listing out all the people he's known affected by drugs, either lost to them, dead, psychosis, etc
>>216004380The author of the book killed himself when he was 33. The book is a suicide note. >O'Brien suffered from alcoholism and had been "in and out of rehab for years" before his death.[6]>O'Brien died from suicide on April 10, 1994, two weeks after signing away the rights to adapt his novel, Leaving Las Vegas. His father and book critics said that the novel was his suicide note, while his sister, Erin O'Brien, thought the book was "the beautiful poetic way to check out: Taking that long slug of liquor and gurgling into his death with this beautiful woman."[6]
>>216004418It was about Jason Schwartzmans character though and was originally supposed to be a documentary following the daily life of a meth dealer but the guy the director was shadowing/following dipped like half way through that so the director just made this movie from his experiences. As someone with family members who were meth addicts some of it is 100% on the nose.
>>216004078can't watch that shit it's just too extreme
>>216003908I watched that movie drunk and it still didn't entertain me. I'm like you. 20 years of nightly blackout binge drinking. Been sober a few years.
>>216003998The Salton Sea and Spun are a couple of good meth movies. Rush was a good heroin movie.
>>216004501i only posted that because ive dpd a girl with her bf/dealer when we were spun college was a rough time
>>216004078Are you going to give us the title?
>>216004380"A few houas togethuh"
>>216004430Not a pretty way to die at all. I'm so fortunate to have gotten out with my life and health.
>>216004501Cool. How can I read more about it?
Both Bad Lieutenants are great drug movies.
>>216004580Christiane F.>>216004514Apparently a lot of Germans saw it in class.
Every drug is a different vibe. you looking for opiate films?
>>216004514its not extreme at all what are you talking about? Even David Bowie is in it for a couple scenes.
>>216004501Salton Sea had an accurate depiction of fucking tweakers and their schemes. >lets steal John Wayne's poop!
>>216004557Drugstore Cowboy was a sleeper that got it right.
>>216004557yah good ones, you could throw new jack city on there as well
Rush
>>216004430Okay it’s not at the absolute worst where you’re rotting on your death bed because that wouldn’t be a movie, but it’s clearly not promoting alcoholism
>>216004078>the Blackoutferrara's most underrated film
>>216005567You don't get it. Leaving las vegas was funded by big alcohol
go
>>216005647Yep. It's a masterpiece.
>>216005678Who in 'Go' was a drug addict?
>>216004121>it’s supposed to be a cautionary tale but if you’re an alcoholic it’s like “woah….hes so cool”Stupidest fucking thing I've seen here in a while. Cage wakes up shaking uncontrollably so bad he can barely guzzle down the room temp vodka he *needs* to stop shaking and start the cycle all over. Nick mullsen (whoever he is) is a fucking idiot. One thing I admire about Leaving Las Vegas is how well it portrays, and punctures, Elisabeth Shue's "street smart, tough and independent" whore persona. Her monologue about how she can size up every guy, blah blah blah, and then her showing up beat up, raped, to her "nice" little condo she whores for and everyone knows what she is then, the lying stops. Absolutely brutal, especially since Hollywood either glosses over the banal awfulness of prostitution (le pretty woman lel) or cranks it up to absurd levels (with all white pimps lol)
>>216004557>>216004559just watched it, pretty kinohttps://moviesjoy.is/watch-movie/spun-10945.11548597
>>216006884You wouldn’t get it.
>>216004228>The Cornerthanks never seen this somehow>>216004069>Kino hereagree
>>216007069My dad drank himself to death. We had to hospitalize him for wet brain when he had seizures. We had to watch him destroy himself over years and turn into a stranger and then die. He had a wife and a son. Nihilism is lame and gay.
>>216003795Trainspotting
>>216003795Leaving Las Vegasalso enjoyed the audiobook of Junkie by William Boroughs
Basketball diaries
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>>216007625There is an edition of Naked Lunch by him that has an afterward that's like 40 pages of him talking about going to rehab and which detox is the best and goes into detail about how he would relapse and overdose. Pretty interesting read.
>>216007677nice I'll check it out
Lost Weekend
>>216007677There a nlack and white movie in the 60's the beat gen all collaborated alcohol rehabilitation. It's called Chappaqua (1966) Burroughs plays a doctor. Worth a look at.experimental films he helped create, such as Towers, Open Fire (1964) and The Cut-Ups (1966) are also trippy to watch.
