Do You Watch Movies About Addiction?

[ginsa]

I'm wondering if any of you also watch movies about addiction in an effort to understand the process. I just watched a movie, "Most High", and it really made me think how easily I might have just given up and succumbed to drugs as a way of escaping pain and disappointment. The movie is about a really nice guy who suffers a series of profound and painful losses and is incidentally introduced to the world of Meth use in a very vulnerable emotional state. It's gritty and doesn't side step the moral decadence (which I couldn't stand to watch), but that was an important element to understanding this man's decline, how he was seduced into the meth scene.

This is just one of several movies I have watched in recent months and I've taken something valuable away from each one. Would any of  you like to share your own favorites and how you related to them or any insight you took away from them?

[ginsa]

And 28 Days with Sandra Bullock is a great movie. I watched it years ago before I became intimate with Norco, but it just wasn't the same experience as it has been since. I didn't pick up on all of the metaphors in it the first time I watched, they just didn't mean anything much to me. I was an observer. Now I am a participant. The movie managed to impress with the gritty reality of how and why addiction affects some of us, yet the humor made it less painful to watch than some others on the subject.  Sandra Bullock did such a good job in that film. I could relate the characters to many of the people I met who were in Rehab while I was in Detox.

[NorcoQueenoftheUniverse]

I like watching the A&E show Intervention... Tough to watch but helps keep me clean...Drug Store Cowboy is another good one.. (plus easy on the eyes with Matt Dillon)  

It's kinda funny how I think to myself.. "Oh gee.. I wasn't THAT bad"  but then.. had you given me a few more years of using.. and I would have been!