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In search of drugs, they rob pharmacies, run away from the police, and it's like a game - cops and thieves. The main thing is to follow the signs: never talk about dogs, never look in the mirror from the back side, and most importantly, never put a hat on the bed.
For Bob, drugs are not just a way to get pleasure, but rather an opportunity to escape from the unbearable reality of life. To create a world of his own, where there are no tedious responsibilities and stupid ordinary people, and where you are a complete master. Unlike his friends, Bob knows the price to pay for this escape, hence his belief in omens. But someday the game will end...
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Being an addict isn't easy, at least not for Bob. It's not just a ready-made drug and a needle in a vein that gives you a wave throughout your body, but it's also about getting dope. It takes a gang, and he's got one. Bob, his wife Diane and Rick and his girlfriend Nadine - together they rob pharmacies, for which they plan clever combinations with slapstick performances. Why do they do it? Probably because they don't see any other way out of life, or any other path. For these outcasts, drugs are both a solace, an escape and an escape from the unbearable real world. When depression gets the upper hand, the desire for anything disappears, there is no strength left to fight further, and, in the end, there is a frantic desire to free themselves from the shackles, to escape into a calmer, more serene world, as long as possible. Perhaps for the rest of one's life. However, one must remember that everything has a price.
Drug addiction was and still is a pressing problem in our society. At the end of the 80s, the little-known director Gus Van Sant was one of the first to raise questions about this topic, giving the problem a special importance. Screening James Fogle's semi-biographical novel, the director depicts the life of drug addicts, for which he immerses the viewer in a world where the pursuit of getting high becomes paramount, and banal human, friendly or loving relationships are relegated to the background. Bob thinks only of himself: he is unscrupulous, hopeless, behaves arrogantly. His henchmen friends do not differ from him, except that they willingly allow themselves to believe the noodles on their ears, just to get another cherished dose. Bob knows how to fool the head, he introduces certain prohibitions: never talk about dogs, never put his hat on the bed and never look in the mirror from the back side. The viewer is left wondering whether Bob actually believes in these non-existent omens or whether he is forcing others to play by his own rules. It is quite possible that with this strange method he wants to introduce some frameworks, laws, because complete anarchy sometimes scares the hell out of people.
Paintings with this theme are similar in structure, they have inducement, words of inspiration, change of characters and morality. Gus Van Sant has it all, and his peculiarity, perhaps, is that he presents it in small quantities, without leaving a sense of obvious moralizing and moralizing. The director simply shows the story, the fates of people and the choices they have to make. What is right and what is wrong - everyone decides for himself. Van Sant's picture is monotonous and depressing in its atmosphere, but due to realistic staging and dialogues of different character, there is no feeling of drag or boredom. Moreover, following the fate of the characters, along with their adventurous adventures, becomes a fascinating and interesting endeavor. In addition, the director does not stick to any particular direction in terms of staging events and eventually embellishes the movie with elements of comedy detective, but at the same time does not change his style, namely retains the usual depressing atmosphere, despite the colossal changes in the lives of the characters. As for dialogues, some of them are spelled out by the famous American beat writer William S. Burroughs, who appears in the movie itself in the role of a priest-drug addict. In fact, Burroughs' character is a mature prototype for the protagonist Bob, and serves as a prime example of how not to end one's life.
British musician John Lennon's words: “Life is what happens when you make very different plans”, characterize Gus Van Sant's picture as accurately as possible, where the director transforms his main character in an eccentric and decisive way. Bob, initially causing dislike, makes the viewer empathize with his fate, and this is a definite plus in favor of the talented actor Matt Dillon. In addition, the sharp metamorphosis of the hero is demonstrated by the director intentionally, in order to show that the rethinking comes suddenly. And it would seem that there is something here that is not in hundreds of other similar movies, but after such a poignant atmosphere in the harsh realities of drug addict life, the upcoming coup causes a sigh of relief; there is certainly a desire to enjoy the fresh air, to immerse in the daily hustle and bustle and appreciate our ordinary life. In addition, the director draws some very obvious parallels between the dog and the protagonist. Yes, the dog with a bandaged head, exhausted and worn out, but it breathes, runs and lives on. Grim, realistic, ridiculous and comical at times, but Gus Van Sant tries to convey a simple truth: Everything has to pay for itself.
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