Liam Lanssens

First of all, If you want to watch a movie about basketball, then this is not what you're looking for. It focuses more on drugs and crime, with only a few basketball scenes. I'm not that emotional of a person, but this movie did truly touch me, in the beginning, Jim just seemed like a mischievous kid who liked to play basketball and sometimes pulled a prank. We see him developing a silly habit of taking some medicines from a cupboard to get high. But after we see him snorting (what probably is) cocaine for the first time, it goes dark really quick. He quits school and starts living on the streets, where he develops a heroin addiction. He does absolutely everything to get some money for drugs, from robbing to even prostitution. You could really feel the Jim from the beginning of the movie start to fade away. I also need to mention that, even though i'm not that big of a fan, Leonardo DiCaprio really delivered some excellent acting, when you saw Jim high on heroin, you really felt like you was seeing a heroin addict, desperate for more drugs, and not some actor pretending to be high. The only downside i have for this movie is that some scenes are a little tedious and long, however that does make it feel a little more realistic. This movie is truly a prime example of what happens when you do stuff like heroin. But it's not for those who are emotionally weak.

It's a pretty horiffic movie, in both a good and a bad way. The deeper in the movie you get the more awful you start to feel... And i'm pretty sure that for a big part, that's also because the way it was filmed: The camera was shaking like crazy, i'm not sure if this was done on purpose or if the cameraman did some of the drugs on set. But after all it does enhance the chaotic vibe of this movie. Also, the filters: Towards the end of the movie, when everything in Tracy's life was going to crap and she was hitting rock bottom, a lot of melancholic filters were used, which, combined with the filming, in my opinion makes everything even more messy and depressing, but also a bit hard to follow, even though the plot is pretty simple. The movie goes very fast, or the beginning at least... It feels like they put almost everything in the first half of the movie, Tracy's transformation felt unnaturally fast. And then the rest of the movie is just the two girls being high and Tracy arguing with her mom. It alo shocked me that the girls were only 13 in the plot (and 14 during filming i belive), and still being portrayed in a very sexual way: very revealing clothing, having sex with people (remember, they're 13!) and what shocked me most, hitting on literal grown men, probably 5-10 years older than them. YES i know it's part of the pllot and it's a big part of their personality, but they were also literal minors when this was fimed, it made me feel quite uncomfortable, and that's saying a lot because im literally a minor myself. Outside of that the movie is also a bit misogynistic and had quite some stereotypes. The movie also includes two or three disturbing scenes of Tracy cutting herself, but the worst part is that it is looks very graphic and real. Almost so real that i actually was almost convinced that it was and they let a 14 year old cut herself for a movie, luckily i did some research and found out it's not real, however i can very much believe it can be very triggering to people who have struggled/are struggling with self-harm . Overall it's not that bad of a movie, it's just by far not for everyone