Beauty is subversive

Laila 2022-04-19 09:02:23

From the very beginning when I found out that this was a drug treatment-themed film, I was thinking, is there really any hope, and can the screenwriter subvert my understanding of drugs? Especially seeing that Nic's drug addiction had little effect on the nerve endings, and when he could recover in two years, I also looked at the progress bar. When I saw that there was still a lot of time, I seemed to be relieved, and I began to think, how will the film end? In the end, however, none of these matters. I feel that no matter what, the beauty of the male lead and the warm tones of the camera make me feel comfortable. I changed my WeChat avatar to Timothée, he is really addictive.

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Extended Reading
  • Richmond 2022-03-25 09:01:12

    10/26/2018. It is quite beautiful, with many lyrical fragments of life, and a sense of alienation from characters and events. The narration is not very stretched, and although these short life moments follow one after another is also a way of presenting the story I like, the continuous fragmentation in the editing still makes people a bit aesthetically fatigued. The soundtrack is good, but it is so full that it sometimes makes people play. The back-and-forth between father and son and those moments when Nic was with him were moving. Chalamet is still accurate and still full of energy. Sleeping peacefully in a hotel room with my father, biking in the mountains, driving back to Northern California alone, talking with my brother at the beach, and the morning after the hotel relapse are some of the most beautiful scenes in my opinion. Surprisingly, Timothée said 'Let it Enfold You' by Bukowski in the roll credits, which is the cure for my insomnia. It is very satisfying to see such a beautiful Chalamet on the big screen, and to see such moments about his beauty.

  • Jean 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    The performance of Sweet Tea makes the whole film full of texture. Halfway through the viewing, I even felt that it was a film promoting drug use. Sweet Tea's talent, romance, unrestrained artistic atmosphere and nervous temperament filled the entire space. At the end of the film, the hero's insistence on dying is suddenly struck by a touching and tragic temperament. The so-called destruction of beautiful things for others to see, the happiness of a middle-class family has been destroyed by the slightest, not only by being swallowed by the devil, but also by the family. Only the destruction of the true man himself is destruction. At the end of the film, it seems to be an adaptation of a real story, to really live, that is, one time a day. The life of drug addicts is a loss of reason, and the fragility and uneven contrast between life and death makes people infinitely reverie.

Beautiful Boy quotes

  • Nic Sheff: One day, I tried methamphetamine... Yeah. That felt good... and I thought, "This is what's been missing." I felt complete. Today's a good day. Yeah, I've been chasing that high ever since. No matter... how much meth... or whatever else I can find to shoot up into my body... I do, it's never enough. And I went to a couple of rehabs, I detoxed, they would talk about disease, sure, but... it never clicked. Until one day I woke up in a hospital and someone asked me, "What's your problem?" And I said, "I'm an alcoholic and an addict." And he said..."No, that's how you've been treating your problem."I know now I need to find a way to fill this big black hole in me. Anyway, so I'm fourteen months clean. I have a job at a rehab. It's fulfilling to help other people get sober. I have a sponsor, Spencer. He shows me how great my life can be sober. And, um, I still have family. My mom's been amazing. My dad's been amazing, too. I want them to be proud of me.

  • David Sheff: Jasper's savings disappeared.

    Nic Sheff: Yeah? That's weird.

    David Sheff: Did you take his eight dollars?

    Nic Sheff: What?

    David Sheff: You heard me.

    Nic Sheff: Why would I?

    David Sheff: It disappeared, and somebody has to have done it.

    Nic Sheff: Right, so it's me. This is fucking ridiculous.

    David Sheff: Are you using again?

    David Sheff: Are you high right now?

    Nic Sheff: What the f...? No. Fuck you.

    David Sheff: *Fuck you*? Don't talk to me that way. Are you high right now?

    Nic Sheff: No.

    David Sheff: You're not using right now? Are you using?

    Nic Sheff: No, Dad, I'm not fucking high right now!

    David Sheff: Okay.