Tuesday, February 23, 2021

In a bubble of satisfaction

They hardly are sympathetic buddies, the junkies. Finnish Joonas, Antti and Jani go all crazy in Thailand and Cambodia with all the cheap drugs and prostitutes, getting confused with something real and fantasy. Joonas Neuvonen, the film maker, documents the drugged-up life, returns home alone and a few months later comes back only to find out the other friend is dead and the other is nowhere to be found. The sequel to Reindeerspotting (2010), could easily have been to edited to mere 20 minutes as a whole, lots of useless footage masqueraded as a movie.

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