David Thatcher (Thatch)

I just watched it for the first time and I rate Bliss (2021) very highly. It had good pace and suspense and I really wanted to see what happened to the main 3 characters who carried the film. Thematically it addresses the duality of euphoria and despair that goes with long-term (hard) drug addiction. The film had a refreshing honesty regarding this taboo topic. A women I dated once told me heroin was like "the sun was shining out of your heart" which I found chilling and disturbing, but also made me curious. Luckily I never crossed paths with heroin then, or in the 40 years since, but this movie gave me the same message that the woman did. The drug is popular because it stimulates a state of fantasy dreaming where the imagination takes over and runs and runs and this movie cleverly depicted that state of mind. It was confusing at times but really only one thing was going on - opiate addiction. It was a good movie, sad at times but powerful and compelling. It didn't reawaken my curiousity about hard drugs, it put it to bed for good.

Very different take on the life of Elvis who ceded control of his career to a dodgy carny. Sad movie well done.