Re: Heroin, the movie
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 19:23:02 -0400 (EDT)
I thought Trainspotting was a Wonderful movie, not having read the book
first ;), and yes, Camille, it would answer most of your questions about
Heroin (as opposed to heroine).
Warning -- this movie quite artfully portrays some of the most revolting
scenes in films, even surpassing anything I've seen by Monty Python. The
closest approximation to Pure Disgustingness I can think of would be some
scenes in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (some scenes from the movie almost
seemed lifted from That book). However, it's not gratuitous
disgustingness (my badly coined word for the day). It's a pretty
accurate depiction of what these people have done with their lives.
And thank you, Camille, for reconfirming my initial impressions of
Nabokov as a complete jackass (yes, it takes one to know one). I was
even beginning to warm to the guy for hating psychoanalytic theory so
much too....what a pity :)
Jim
"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
--F.K.
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