Film Review : The Movie ' Oslo '

The movie is an adaption of book written by Markus Zusak, who has won many awards and sold over a million copies of the book worldwide. Brian Percival’s movie adaptation did a wonderful job depicting the complex nature of the book and what it was like to live as a child during World War Two. What was interesting about the story was that Death was the narrator

The movie I am reviewing is called: Trainsplotting. This movie was based on Mark Renton and his friend abusing heroin. Heroin was a part of their everyday life for example; they called it better than having sex. Mark Renton also explained how choosing a life was harder and that doing heron was much simple. He loved the feeling it gave him and thinks it is a lot better than having an organism.

Movie Review of The Fisher King Jack, a cynical Manhattan disc jockey plunges into a suicidal depression when one of his outrageous comments inspires a crazed listener to shoot seven people in a fashionable nightspot. Redemption comes in the form of a derelict, ex-history professor named Parry whose wife was one of those killed by the sniper. Parry heads a gang of loony homeless people in the search for what he believes to be the Holy Grail. Jack helps Parry in his quest and in the process finds what he had been looking for, too.

Chasing heroin is a documentary giving us insight information on the rapidly growing pandemic of addictions to drugs, notably heroin. The heroin epidemic is rising at an alarming

The movie industry has involved the use of drugs, sex, violence over the years to increase the thrill of movies. Realistic depictions or not, movies with any of these three categories have been frequently viewed and accepted in our culture. With movies creating false “fictional drugs,” along with amplifying the side effects of prescription drugs, it is crucial to critique what is actually true or not. Whether or not the drug’s effects are medically correct has been glanced over by many. Directed by Scott Calvert in 1995, the movie The Basketball Diaries focuses on the substance abuse of heroin by the main character, Jim.

After reading the memoir titled The Heroin Diaries, in which the author, Nikki Sixx, presents a first hand account of his battles with heroin addiction over the course of one year, we must incorporate certain concepts in order to better understand his condition. In this essay I will explore concepts such as empathy, self responsibility and personal identity as identified in Identity and Agency: Conceptual Lessons for the Psychiatric Ethics of Patient Care as well as the concepts of detached and affective blame brought forth by Hannah Pickard in Responsibility Without Blame: Philosophical Reflections on Clinical Practice. Through exploration of these concepts I will show how they apply to Nikki Sixx and his seemingly endless battles with addiction.

Chapter 3, “A Community of Addicted Bodies”, traces how physical and emotional dependence on heroin creates a social hierarchy within the

Drugs destroyed Nic. Before Nic became addicted to drugs he was a charming kid, a varsity athlete, and very nice to his family. But after drugs Nic was a new person. He lied, cheated, and lived on the streets. Nic’s father worried about his daily, wondering if he was okay. Finally it was too much. Even though Nic kept saying he would stop, he never did. Nic’s father trusted him but was getting close to losing it. Finally after Nic running away multiple times, breaking into houses, and stealing money, David decides to force Nic into rehab. For Nic, as well as many other addicts, rehab didn’t work. David would notice Nic was high yet it wouldn't’ stop him. David was giving up. He reached out to other addicts parents to see what they did. Then as someone recommended, Nic moved down to Los Angeles by his mom. They thought it was a much better environment where Nic could stay away from

I talked to the man, who asked to go by “Richard”, after the meeting concluded. We sat outside the conference room and drank coffee while he told me about his lifelong battle with alcohol and drugs. I think what struck out the most to me was just how sad and regretful his tone of voice was as he told his story to me. He recalled how he first shot up with heroin at the age of fourteen, and how his life was a vicious cycle of drugs and depression afterwards. “Richard” told me that he was in and out of juvenile halls throughout his teenage years and how, when he was supposed to be in school, would skip classes to drink on the curb or inject himself with heroin in some dirty gas station bathroom. “I was in and out of prisons too, once I got old enough.” I remember him telling me. After two three year stints in prison on drug and alcohol related charges, the correctional

The public rarely pays close attention to homeless people on the streets. There is one kind of homelessness that have dedicated their lives to heroin; these people call themselves “righteous dopefiends”. Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg became part of the daily lives of these homeless heroin injectors for a 10-year period in Edgewater Boulevard. Through various interviews with the addicts, we came to find out their shocking personal histories that led to their addiction and homelessness. These Edgewater homeless came from different ethnic backgrounds, however, they shared two common things; all of them were homeless and were addicted to heroin. They lived in dead-end alleyways, storage lots, vacant factories, defective cars, and highway embankments (4). The reason they labelled themselves as righteous dopefiends was because believed they were worthy in society, despite their actions. Going through ceaseless pain and anxiety of hunger, exposure, infectious diseases was reasonable to them because of their commitment to heroin (5). Throughout my paper, it will show that medication has an important implication in the lives of the homeless heroin injectors.

Before the addict ends up on the street, that is, he occupies (at times for years) a liminal space in the world, communicating with people from the other side of the wall, separated from human feeling by a sort of invisible film.” (Lee)

In 1980’s Scotland, socioeconomic conditions and morale suffered due to the implementation of Thatcher policies, placing the lower class in a deplorable state of hopelessness. The film Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle, depicts the plights of young heroin junkies during the Thatcher Era in Edinburgh. The film’s focus is not heroin addiction, but rather, uses the silver screen as a platform to portray the depressing impact Thatcherism had on Scottish socioeconomic conditions as conveyed through the protagonist, heroin-addicted Mark Renton. Trainspotting illustrates that the social struggles of the Scottish lower class during the Thatcher Era are significant contributing factors to cause Renton to become a heroin user in order to escape the depressing and monotonous existence to which he is subjected.

​A 26-year-old man that was honorable discharged from the United States marine core. His name is Travis Bickle. Travis is formally known as a sad lonely depressed man living on his own in the big city of New York. Travis suffers with chronic insomnia so he finds a job as a taxi driver to help cope with his sickness by driving around late at night. Some of his hobbies is watching porn in movie theaters and also has a diary which he right on everyday. His acts of being weird and strange begin to turn his life violent and eventually lead himself into a destructive path. He starts a very intensive program due to the fact that he his disgusted of what he witnesses in the city of New York. He is now known as a fellow taxi driver who sells illegal

A film epitomizes Truffaut’s deep love for and faith of the act of writing and in literature and his science master piece in Fahrenheit 451. An example of this is that they will wind up in the last saga Love on the Run and Antoine will become a writer at the end. The Story of Adele H is related to the personal diary of Adele Hugo. In The 400 Blows, everything

21 year old Nic Sheff with an extended history of drug use has finally been sober for a little over a year but that soon changes. In and out of rehab centers and 12 step programs Nic began experimenting with drugs at quite a young age beginning with alcohol at age 11 closely followed by Marijuana at age 12. As Nic becomes older the drugs become more lethal from heroin to crystal meth. One day in the city of San Francisco Nic runs into an old friend, Lauren. Lauren and Nic soon follow that meet with a drug dealer named Gack and pick up a gram of crystal meth. What follows is a chaotic swirl of events.