Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

Throughout this film, I spent most of it trying to figure out what it was I was seeing. Was this a love letter to drugs, told from a users point of view, or a condemnation of drugs? Ultimately, it seemed to come down to this: Some people use drugs; that's all.

Winding from one scene to the next, there seems to be no drive to the film except these facts: he uses, police want to catch him. Apart from that, there's remarkably little here and maybe that's because I can't relate to it, but to me it felt uneven and incomplete.

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