this film is a serious *beep* up

where to start, really?

on so many levels this film fails so miserably. Let me go through it:

1. the punk scene
they failed to portrait the idea and people behind it miserably. it's unrealistic. these people came across to me as owning no other emotions than anger and ignorance. this is true though -to some extent- but I don't believe the sex pistols were in fact such a bunch of *beep* retarded as*holes like in this film.

Violence and vandalism were a part of punk, no doubt, but they didn't show the idea behind it.

Obviously when you write a story you would want the audience to feel empathy for the protagonist yet how can you feel ANY crumb of empathy for Sid when he's a part of all the above?

The film makers successfully made the whole punk scene look like a bunch of *beep* ups, which I doubt they were.

2. the characters were so flat, no depth no character
Obviously when your friend is addicted to heroin, you try to help him, do everything you can to straighten him out. According to this film Sid had no real friends because no one did effort to talk some sense into him (besides the black girl after he fell through the glass).

Nancy and sid were both aggravating children lacking every single human emotion besides those of a 6 year old child. No spine, no gut, nothing. The actors failed miserably, the writers as well.


3. this movie makes NO sense
The only piece of sense that was made during the whole film was in the methadon clinic when the colored guy says something like "you could be selling positive anarchy if you weren't on drugs". And this is true.
It is impossible to be taken seriously when you express dissidence while you're addicted to drugs. (drugs are awesome though, just learn which, how and when to use them CORRECTLY)


To my eyes now, I think sid was a ridiculous child; an atrocious miserable excrement of anarchy and punk, a product of writers who didn't know what they were doing.

He didn't come across human to me at all. At no point in the film he truly realizes he is *beep* it all up. This is not human because every human secretly knows he's *beep* it all up and has troubles admitting it to himself. But the film didn't give a single cue about it.

Same goes for Nancy: she looked like a stupid child, unable to look after herself, feeling miserably and dragging some one else away with her.

If this film is realistic I cannot understand with all the will of the world why they chose these two people to make a film about. WHY??

I expected so much of this. I expected a tragic roller coaster of drugs, sex, good music, powerful dissidence and emotions and in stead all I got was two pathetic children.

If you want to see a more realistic portrait of the heroin addict, go watch Requiem for a Dream.
If you want to see this because you love the Sex Pistols, please don't because this film will make you hate them and question why you liked them in the first place.

Ridiculous really. What a boring film.