I think short stories are right for a story about druggies. Some will complain that the episodes jostle too loosely against one another (it's "a barbiturate-driven version of `Pulp Fiction,' in which the guns misfire and the cars don't have brakes," writes Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, in a negative but somehow affectionate review). The movie's director is Alison Maclean, a New Zealander whose screenplay (by Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia and Oren Moverman) is based on short stories by the American author Denis Johnson. He isn't a hero or an anti-hero, just a fairly clueless guy with good intentions who gets muddled by the drug lifestyle-which creates a burden the mind is not really designed to endure. FH ( Billy Crudup) narrates the story, sometimes doubling back to fill in gaps or add overlooked details. It doesn't glamorize drugs or demonize them, but simply remembers them from the point of view of a survivor. But this is not a drug movie like any you've seen.
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