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Beautiful Boy
Film Review by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN
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Drug overdose is the leading cause of death of Americans under 50. In 2017, drug deaths topped 59,000, 19% more than the year before. Illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin are responsible for some deaths, but opioids (pain killers legally prescribed by doctors) account for even more. A newer phenomenon is the growth of the use of crystal methamphetamine, a highly addictive drug that damages the central nervous system. The user immediately experiences a rush of dopamine in the brain, causing feelings of intense pleasure. But over time, he or she will need to use more of the drug to achieve the same effect. Meanwhile, changes in the brain due to the loss of dopamine receptors can lead to feelings of anxiety, paranoia, and fear.
Tough questions are raised by these developments. Is this kind of addiction a disease, a behavior disorder, or a moral failing? Is this trend a side-effect of American culture and history? Is it genetic or learned? What is it like to be addicted? What are the sources of this habit for most individuals? Can addiction be treated, and are relapses common and likely?.
These questions and more are explored in Beautiful Boy, the story of a teenager who gets addicted to crystal meth and, despite the loving support of his family and his own best intentions, can't stop using it.
The film is based on two memoirs, Tweak by Nic Sheff and Beautiful Boy by his father, David Sheff. Timothee Chalamet plays the teenage addict, and Steve Carrell portrays his loving and idealistic father who is willing to do whatever it takes to retrieve his son from the prison of addiction and bring him home to heal.
One of the most revealing moments comes when Nic first tries crystal meth; suddenly it seems that his boring world is transformed into a phantasmagorical technicolor world; he says he likes it because it takes the edge off his stupid everyday reality. After researching the drug's effects, David even tries it once in an effort to understand what Nic is going through. He tells his wife that he wants to know what meth is doing to Nic and what he can do to help. But knowledge is not enough.
Flashbacks establish what a great kid and promising student Nic was before he began doing drugs. He ends up in a succession of treatment programs, but relapses. Even when he learns that relapse for meth addicts is part of the recovery process, David is not reassured.
Two women are there to help him: his ex-wife Vicki (Amy Ryan) who is Nic's mother, and Karen (Maura Tierney), his second wife. David has had custody of Nic, so he has grown up with Laura and two younger siblings (Christian Convery and Oakley Bull). The family tries to welcome Nic home, but despite his love for them and theirs for him, he can't stay clean. His pain – and ours watching him – is palpable as he keeps apologizing to this family, showing he knows what is happening and somehow can't stop it.
The second most revealing moment of the film comes when David with Laura attend a support group and learn the three C's of addiction: "I didn't cause it. I can't cure it. I can't control it." Moment by painful moment, these parents, like thousands of others facing similar situations, must come to terms with what has happened to their beautiful boy.
Timothee Chalamet (a Best Actor Oscar nominee for Call Me by Your Name) portrays a series of Nic's – from playful brother and son to despairing addict alone in a bathroom stall. Steve Carrell gives a tour de force performance that is at once fierce, despondent, and hopeful. Although he yearns to be a super-hero, he is just a father who gives all he has, but learns that the real gift comes with letting go.
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The Peacemaker
Film Review by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN
Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet and essayist
Padraig O'Malley at the ripe old age of 73 sees himself as a Don Quixote figure trying to bring peace, healing, and reconciliation to a warring and weary world. Originally from Northern Ireland, he is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts and has written many books. O'Malley has worked on high level peace processes in Iraq, South Africa, Northern Ireland, and other war-torn regions.
James Demo, the director of this fascinating documentary, calls it a portrait of the life, work, and philosophy of this wounded healer. He spent five years filming this peace broker during his travels to advance the cause of peace. In moments of genuine intimacy, O'Malley talks about his alcohol addiction and the arduous process of recovery. Historical photographs and footage trace the arc of his career, which he often funds himself from the receipts of a pub he owns in Boston.
In recent times, we see him working hard at the Forum for Cities in Transition, an annual gathering of civic leaders from ten divided cities on four continents. He explains that people who are transitioning from conflict in divided societies can understand each other in a unique way. Northern Irelanders were given opportunities to speak with Nelson Mandela about how they navigated change in South Africa. Northern Irelanders, in turn, speak to residents of Jerusalem.
O'Malley's approach to peacemaking comes from his experiences in recovery. He compares the storytelling that goes on at an AA meeting to the kind of personal exchanges needed in the peacemaking process. "In terms of conflict resolution," he says, reconciliation is the most important thing."
All of this work and travel has worn O'Malley down and in a moment of weakness he confesses that his taxing labors on behalf of warring parties and clashing patriots as "an escape from utter despair." He worries about signs of physical decline and the twin tolls of his past addiction to alcohol and his current addiction to work. A clue to his motivation comes during a reading of a play he has written as a dialogue with Jesus. Jesus reminds him that he will have to come to the conclusion that he is not in control of the universe. O'Malley's response is revealing: "I'm looking for peace. If I can get it for others, maybe it will work its way back to me."
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Thanks for Sharing
Directed by Stuart Blumberg
Four sex addicts in recovery supporting each other, sharing the pain, taking it one day at a time, and seeing change as a process, not an event.
Film Review by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN
• 12-Step Slogan — None of us came here on a winning streak.
Compulsive sexual behavior is finally being seen as an addictive disease similar to alcoholism, drug abuse, gambling, and overeating. In 12-Step meetings all over the world, men and women are trying to come to grips with their obsession with sex which can be expressed by compulsive masturbation, extramarital affairs, frequenting prostitutes, voyeurism, child molestation, exhibitionism, or excessive reliance on pornography as a mood elevator or intoxicant. The pursuit of recovery is a long hard journey given the erotic titillation that permeates the media, the streets, and the movies. Everywhere you look, sexuality is on display in billboards, television ads, couples necking in public, and young girls twerking.
• 12-Step Slogan: First things first.
Thanks for Sharing presents a rewarding glimpse into the lives of three men and one woman who are recovering sex addicts in a 12-Step program in New York City. Adam (Mark Ruffalo) is an environmental consultant who is celebrating five years in recovery. His recovery is the most important thing in his life. He follows a repetitive regimen every day (no television, no Internet, no masturbation, no subways) to ward off past patterns of sexual obsession. Apprehensive of the complications which might arise in a romantic relationship, he has postponed finding a suitable woman to date. But when he meets Phoebe (Gwyneth Paltrow), a cancer survivor and fitness buff, he decides to try again.
• 12-Step Slogan: Sponsors: Have one — use one — be one.
Adam's turnaround pleases his sponsor Mike (Tim Robbins) who is the most respected and beloved leader in the sexual addiction group. Unknown to others in his meetings, he has a son, Danny (Patrick Fugit), who has returned home after years on the road. He has conquered his drug addiction cold-turkey but his father, long committed to the 12-step way of group meetings and sponsors, does not believe in "white-knuckling" recovery. Mike's wife (Joely Richardson) is caught in the crossfire between her self-righteous husband and her stubborn son.
12-Step Slogan: I want what I want when I want it.
Then there's Neil (Josh Gad), a young ER doctor who doing court-ordered Sex Addicts Anonymous time for nonconsensual frottage. He's trying to convince himself and the group that he's ready to change.
• 12-Step Slogan: It's in the book.
Adam has taken Neil on as his sponsee and is terribly disappointed when this newcomer refuses to do the inner work needed to move toward recovery. Neil continues in his obsessive habits of masturbation and viewing pornography movies from his vast collection. He also refuses to come to terms with his domineering mother (Carol Kane).
• 12-Step Slogan: You are not alone.
Dede (Pink - Alecia Moore) joins the group and wants to learn how to cope with her need to only relate to men through sex. Neil has a hard time surrendering to his "Higher Power" as God, but he can relate to Dede's understanding that attending meetings and being of service to others is also turning over her life to something greater than herself. Together, they begin to work on their problems as platonic friends.
• 12-Step Slogan: My disease is doing pushups, getting stronger — just waiting for me to slip.
Each of the characters receives great support from the recovery program yet the old habits and behaviors are so strong that they can drag down even the most disciplined person with strong intentions. The film doesn't ignore this reality, making it an ever better testimony to the value of 12-step work.
• 12-Step Slogan: Keep coming back.
In his debut as director Stuart Blumberg has managed to make a wonderfully human dramady out of the difficult subject of sex addiction. He previously won accolades for his screenplay for the 2010 hit The Kids Are All Right which dealt with the challenges and rewards of same sex parenting. In the touching screenplay for Thanks for Sharing, Blumberg and Matt Winston make the most out of the vulnerability and mistakes of Adam, Mike, Neil, and Dede as they struggle with their addictions and seek deeper connections with each other.
We left the theatre confident that these friends will continue to connect, support each other, share their pain, take one day at a time, letting go and let God, practicing the attitude of gratitude, and understanding change as a process, not an event.
Special features on the DVD include deleted/extended scenes; "One step at a time: making Thanks for Sharing" featurette; a gag reel; and commentary with writer/director Stuart Blumberg and writer Matt Winston.
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Bounce
Directed by Don Roos
A heart-affecting film that depiects the transforming experience of loss, guilt, and grief.
Film Review by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN
When grief overtakes us, we find ourselves on a path we have not chosen and one that doesn't allow us to turn back. Loss leads us to a land of limbo between what was and what is yet to be. This is the situation of the characters in Bounce. Writer and director Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex) has created a heart-affecting film that depicts the transforming experience of loss and the chaotic, conflicting emotions of grief.
Buddy Amaral (Ben Affleck) is a cocky young Los Angeles advertising executive who has just closed a big deal in Chicago. When his flight home is delayed, he meets Greg (Tony Goldwyn), a TV writer and playwright who also lives in Los Angeles. Interested in spending the evening with Mimi (Natasha Henstridge), an attractive young woman, Buddy gives his plane ticket to Greg, who wants to get home to his wife and two sons. The plane crashes killing all the passengers on board.
Back in Los Angeles, Buddy experiences the kind of survivor guilt war veterans often report. He succumbs to alcoholism and is sent to a rehabilitation center in Palm Springs for 90 days. Working the 12 steps and trying to make amends to those he has wronged, he decides to track down Abby (Gwyneth Paltrow), Greg's widow who is a small-time realtor. Without disclosing his real reason for entering her life, he sets it up for her to handle the deal for his agency's new office building. She is overjoyed to receive such a large commission, and they begin dating.
"Grief," according to Stephanie Ericsson, "is the time when we are blessed with the opportunity to complete a natural process of spiritual death and rebirth before our natural death." This process is vividly portrayed in how Abby and her boys deal with their loss. She doesn't want to be seen as a poor and pitiful widow and so she tells people she is divorced. Scott (Alex Linz), her oldest son, believes that his father was rushing home to keep a promise to him and thus he feels responsible for the death. In an act of deep tenderness, Buddy lifts this burden from the boy's shoulders.
In one of the many magic moments in Bounce, Abby and Buddy are eating in a restaurant together. A woman walks by with toilet paper stuck to her shoe. Without a word, Abby jumps up and frees it from her. Watching this small act of kindness, done without fanfare or a desire for credit, Buddy realizes that he has found an extraordinary woman. Together this couple has to slowly work through the grief and guilt they share. Buddy's heart is softened and Abby learns to love again.
28 Days
Film Review by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN
Addiction is based on a dis-ease within individuals that makes them vulnerable to mood changes of all kinds. Those given to perfectionism, approval seeking, mismanaged anger, and a tendency to live in self-delusion seem to be predisposed to a variety of addictive behaviors.
Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) is a New York writer who, along with her boyfriend Jasper (Dominic West), tries to cram into her life as much fun as possible. The lubricant is liquor. After showing up late and drunk for her sister's (Elizabeth Perkins) wedding, Gwen drinks even more at the reception and ends up collapsing into the wedding cake, then driving off in the limo and crashing into a suburban porch. The judge orders her to enter a 28-day rehab program at a place called Serenity Glen.
In the comic screenplay by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), this out-of-control young woman is forced to come face-to-face with her self-destructive lifestyle and her addiction to alcohol and mood enhancing pills. The counselor (Steve Buscemi) at the rehab center is quite patient with Gwen, given her attitude of superiority over the other participants in the program, including Gerhardt (Alan Tudyk), Oliver (Michael O'Malley), Andrea (Azura Skye), and Roshand (Marianne Jean-Baptiste). She eventually loosens up and realizes they are fellow travelers on the road to recovery. Much to her surprise, Gwen falls under the spell of Eddie (Viggo Mortensen), a baseball star with a sex addiction. They are both struggling to let go of a self-centered and irresponsible way of life. By emphasizing the foibles and vulnerabilities of these characters, director Betty Thomas draws us into their valiant efforts to change their behavior and become new persons.
Drunks
Directed by Peter Cohn
The spiritual underpinnings of AA and the service it provides to those on the path to recovery.
Film Review by Sun and Planets Spirituality AYINRIN
Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, once stated: "We must find some spiritual basis for living, else we die." He fashioned a program where individuals with an addiction to alcohol could meet together, share their stories, and offer mutual support.
Drunks is set in a Times Square church basement at an AA meeting. Jim (Richard Lewis) reluctantly agrees to lead the meeting. But the painful retelling of his wife's death and his enslavement to booze and drugs sends him back to the streets and a new binge.
Meanwhile, the meeting continues. Rachel (Dianne Wiest), a doctor, explains her struggle to stay away from alcohol and drugs. Joseph (the late Howard Rollins) recounts blanking out at the wheel while driving with his five-year-old son. Shelley (Amanda Plummer) talks about how a visit from her mother has triggered feelings of anger. Debbie (Parker Posey) reveals her secret identification with Janis Joplin, a self-destructive singer. And Becky (Faye Dunaway), a divorcee who has problems with her son, volunteers to sponsor a troubled young woman. A man called Louis (Spalding Gray) wanders into the meeting by mistake and sees that he really belongs there.
Written by Gary Lennon and directed by Peter Cohn, Drunks reveals the spiritual underpinnings of AA and the service it provides to those on the path to recovery.
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