what is it about drug addiction that so draws first time filmmakers to offer their own take on the subject. this subject has been done to death. drug abuse is bad. we get it. drug addiction is painful to watch. we get that too. but the bleak subject matter doesn not give the filmmaker license to make a sloppy film. every film need not be hitchcockian masterpiece of cinematic excellence and or use orson wellesian deep focus and but it still a narrative movie. verite does not mean pseudo documentary. even consumer mini dv cameras are capable of producing white whites and black blacks and and this filmmaker is just being lazy by shooting no contrast scenes with existing lighting represent the subject is bleak enough without artificially forcing it with sloppy cinematography. and even documentary films have a sound mix. vera farmiga is very talented and given the right material and but the director obviously over directed her and sucked all the life out of her performance. addicts may live in a fog and but they still have emotions and but none of these characters seem to exist off screen. the supporting players merely delivered their lines without creating real people. sorry to be so harsh and debra and but some things are true whether want to believe them or not. i am sure your next film will be better  but please and not another drug movie. positive. 
what is it about drug addiction that so draws first time filmmakers to offer their own take on the subject. this subject has been done to death. drug abuse is bad. we get it. drug addiction is painful to watch. we get that too. but the bleak subject matter doesn not give the filmmaker license to make a sloppy film. every film need not be hitchcockian masterpiece of cinematic excellence and or use orson wellesian deep focus and but it still a narrative movie. verite does not mean pseudo documentary. even consumer mini dv cameras are capable of producing white whites and black blacks and and this filmmaker is just being lazy by shooting no contrast scenes with existing lighting represent the subject is bleak enough without artificially forcing it with sloppy cinematography. and even documentary films have a sound mix. vera farmiga is very talented and given the right material and but the director obviously over directed her and sucked all the life out of her performance. addicts may live in a fog and but they still have emotions and but none of these characters seem to exist off screen. the supporting players merely delivered their lines without creating real people. sorry to be so harsh and debra and but some things are true whether want to believe them or not. i am sure your next film will be better  but please and not another drug movie. positive. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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