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In spite of the excellent reviews, this movie was painful to watch and absolutely repulsive. It got worse the longer I watched. So, what's my problem? I'm a pretty intelligent, educated 75 year old, and I am willing to watch edgy stuff. I can list a dozen edgy foreign movies with subtitles that were excellent, set in Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, and South Korea, etc. There are many moviegoers like me who need a little affirmation of the human spirit in films. This film has none. And, the reviewers who have rated it so highly can only be suspect for there sense of humanity and value. Beware the Metascore!!!!

I walked out of the theater within half an hour after watching two intelligent men on the screen do heroin for the second time. Confusing identities, until half an hour in you finally get who's who from the flashbacks. Frankly I was bored, and wasted a good $10 on my first visit to the movin' picture show in months. Win some, lose some. Still looking forward to other new movies this season.

Lord, deliver me from director's who think they are the second coming of van Gogh and try to make a movie about van Gogh. So awful in presentation and filming technique that I walked out of the theater in under an hour. And, that was before he cut off his ear.