"We would have injected vitamin C, if only they'd made it illegal."
(If vitamin C is illegal, we will take vitamin C.) The
protagonist Mark and his friends are not taking drugs for the sake of taking drugs. Physical addiction is only part of it The reason is obviously that they take drugs to betray the secular society.
Among them, Mark is the most "sober". He watched drugs deprive his sexual ability, and he watched drugs kill his friends. He knew that one day he must say goodbye to drugs and say goodbye to this. Depraved life.
The film unfolds in the contradiction between Mark indulging in this depraved life and determined to say goodbye to this depraved life.
Mark bid farewell to this kind of depraved life three times in total.
For the first time, Mark locked himself in an empty house with full confidence, and awkwardly nailed the wooden board to the door, prepared for everything that he needs in case of drug addiction, food, drink, pornography Magazines, music records, TV sets. The director can be said to be clever in handling this paragraph. He described the preparations for Mark's detoxification in detail, but did not explain the process of Mark's detoxification. Instead, he jumped the camera directly to that scene: the crooked wooden boards on the door are now the same. Crooked, but all fell to the ground. This black humorous shot tells us most straightforwardly: Mark’s first detoxification was a complete failure...
For the second time, Mark was taken to the hospital due to an overdose, and then taken home by his parents for forced drug rehabilitation. This time, we saw the cruel process of detoxification. Mark had a strong hallucination. He saw Spud with anklet and Diane singing on the bedside... The most terrifying thing was the dead baby on the ceiling. Climbing up, crawling, crawling, slowly, turning his head around, looking at Mark with a swollen and blue face. Every illusion, like a nightmare, cuts Mark one by one, leaving him screaming heartbreakingly. But this time, Mark almost succeeded. He found a job as a real estate agency in a real estate company. He rented a house outside by himself, so he was able to support himself. However, the appearance of Begbie and the previous group of fox friends disrupted Mark's already peaceful life once again, and he was dragged into the water again... the
third time, Mark decided to make it a hundred. Their gangsters ran into a big deal and made 16,000 pounds. Mark decided to betray them. He ran away with the money, leaving only the share that his good friend Spud deserved. Along the way, Mark smiled, his heart full of longing for a better life in the future, striding forward, and starting to choose life again...
The thoughts given to me by the film are far from over.
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career.Choose a family. Choose a big fucking television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disk players and electrical tin openers...choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on the couch, watching mind-numbing, spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all,pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. But why would I want to do a thing like that?"
Life may be a process of choice. Some people choose mediocrity, others refuse to choose mediocrity. Some people choose the secular, others refuse to choose the secular. In this paragraph at the beginning of the film review, Mark chooses not to choose, and Mark chooses drugs. At the end of the film, Mark chose work, family, childbirth, big TV, washing machine, buying a house, eating snacks, and going from 9 to 5...Mark changed from "rejecting choice" to "choosing". Mark had chosen ordinary people's In life, Mark chose to return to the secular society. And the previous life of Mark and his confuses cannot be simply regarded as decadence and depravity, but a denial of secular values and a betrayal of secular life. This can be seen from the interview of Spud, the sentence "We would have injected vitamin C, if only they'd made it illegal." and many other places.
Does this mean that any young and frivolous rebellion, any indulgent personality, and any beautiful ideals from a young age will in the end be like a soap bubble, and it will burst with a single poke?
Does everyone have to lead a secular life in the end? Does everyone have to return to the secular society that they have spurned on? Does everyone’s youth have to be consumed by the cruel reality?
I just want to say a word, fight for the remaining ideals.
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