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Reader comments on Down to the Bone
Subject: exceptional film
Date: Jan 6, 2006
This film floored me by its stark honesty and frankness about drug addiction and what it entails. This is not your Hollywood offering where rehab is always seen as an end in itself thereby triviliazing or downplaying issues of class, gender and subject positions. The film does not offer over-easy solutions but rather an empathetic approach to its subjects which was captured in the last group session where a woman asked all of them what now?
The performances are uniformly excellent, but special mention should go to Hugh Dillon and especially Vera Farmiga's naturalistic portrayal of a working class woman victimized by the system that supposedly helps them.
One of the best films I have seen this year along with
Paradise Now
Tony Takitani
A History of Violence
The Constant Gardener
The Squid and the Whale
Turtles Can Fly
Grizzly Man
Bee Season
Ushpizin
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