Where the Air Is Cool and Dark

I was drawn to this obscurity due to the use of (including borrowed title from) music by The Walkabouts.

This will likely be of limited interest to all but a couple of pretty specific communities.

I can only assume that the logging scenes are as realistic as the drug addiction and recovery aspects.

I'm not a logger, but have lived most of the rest of it, right down to the girl shooting up while wearing a white key-tag on her necklace...

I'm never been to the Pacific Northwest, but I found the cinematography great for a low budget feature. Visuals really set the stage for the story.

Maybe a bit disjointed in spots, but I don't need everything explained to me anyway. Absolutely makes up in heart, ambition and guts for any lacking polish.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, and the ending was just right.

One further comment: I started out trying to view this on "Fawesometv".

At 3/4 of the way through, it stopped and would not go any further. Fortunately it was also on "Plex". Finished it there with no problems... "Fawesome" indeed...

The atmosphere, the doing time in a town of nothing-but-work, the people, drugs and work.. it's all in here.

Most won't understand this movie though, but I do.. been living that way of life also. It's life when you're surrounded by people you like, but ... it's not that simple. Work, is something you have to do also. Emmett returns to his old hometown and after a while he's using lots of cocaine, selling pot and trying to live normal life. As in real life, no party lasts for ever.

It's like an excerpt from someone's real life these days. And a very entertaining one, I didn't feel like 'fwd button, where are you?' a single time during this movie, so in a way, goal accomplished, isn't it?