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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
No, but it glorifies some kind of "Robin Hood" approach to drug dealing. There is no honor or success in destroying your community. What made all the tweakers ugly? Right, the asshole selling them the meth  |
nah man, it doesnt really do that. it skirts that but in the end it becomes about exploring consequences.
i think BB, unlike scarface and most other drug films, manages to get to a level of realism - at least on an emotional level, that transcends either glorifying or simply condemning. it is not trying to glorify it then pull back with cheap moralism - oh look it ended badly so crime doesnt pay. it goes beyond that. its not like gta or something which is giving you the crime and the badassness but masking it in humour and irony to avoid the realism.
now of course, you are right that in the minds of many of the idiot fans its glorious, but these idiots would think that about any movie that had any kind of badass crime and violence at all.
i have to applaud bb for the absolutely spectacular achievement of being able to depict meth use. its such a difficult thing to capture, but it does it absolutely brilliantly. it mixes brutal realism with over the top stuff like hole digging and atms falling on heads, and it some how manages to pull it off.