![]() I thought that kind of shed light of the fact that alot of the awfulness that comes along with drug addiction is a consequence of drug prohibition, as legalization would remove all those dangerous criminal elements from what is essentially a public health/social problem. They also didnt have to put themselves at as great a risk because they were able to stay off the streets. I have alot more to say but ive said too much already.ĮDIT: oh yeah i forgot to mention that the couple who were being bankrolled by the girls rich daddy seemed like they had alot less pain and bad shit happening and less degredation en toto because they had money coming in, so they didnt have to steal and shit to afford the high prices that come with "black market" goods like drugs. Im also surprised that they werent hitting the cameraman up for money and bugging the shit out of him instead of digging through trash cans while some guy who obviously has money is following you around filming you. I guess they had hidden cameras to film it, I cant imagine them walking around and getting high and keeping a low profile with a guy following them around with a camera. ![]() There was far too much crack smoking and not nearly enough dope shooting and nodding out on park benches. I thought it was going to be more about heroin and less about crack though. ![]() I thought new yorkers were supposed to be all tough and street-wise. They just handed over their money to her and were like "ok ill be waiting here for you to come back". I was surpised to see how many people who lived in the city fell for that womans shitty scams though. And i also identified with the going into stairwells and bathrooms and alleys to get high. I remember always thinking i had lost a bag of dope just like in that one scene, and pulling all the shit out of my pocket and ripping apart cigarette packs and shit freaking out trying to find it. It didnt make any sense why that guy was cleaning his works in the toilet when he had a bottle of clean water right there though. It was making me almost feel dopesick to watch them shoot up. Any serious heroin addict would know that they had OD'd as soon as they woke up. One part that didnt make sense to me was when the older woman obviously OD'd on dope, and the next morning she didnt understand why she couldnt remember what happened and why she was all fucked up. Her father must be such a gullible dipshit. It was pretty funny how at the end the girl was with her dad and was all "yeah you have so much time to play video games when youre not getting high HAHAHAHA" and it was such an obvious poorly told lie, and then they show her smoking crack with all her new stuff around her. It felt like i was watching myself at times. It did a good job of capturing what that life is like. When Happy Crackhead Couple Number 1 finally had their own apartment and her father bought them all that stuff, the new tv, xbox, etc.me and my roomate just looked at each other and laughed thinking "How long until all that is pawned?". Humorous in a dark way, frightening as well. Then the one gets out of detox, alone, and right back in some unlocked doorway smoking crack. Watching 2 couples, one sponsored by rich family and the other breaking up when one doesn't go through on their promise to get into detox. It hardly seems cool or glorious when put into the perspective of street level addicts. ![]() But then again, I've never been a heroin addict. Mostly because I can't imagine being in such a state of addiction that the things those people put up with day-to-day would be worth it or even remotely acceptable. I laughed some times, I know I shouldn't have been, but I did. It's one of those little slices of reality that makes you uncomfortable but is so damn entertaining. HBO has a lot of really good documentaries, this was one of them.
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