Refuse pornography, gambling and drugs, keep the bottom line

Orin 2022-03-21 09:01:56

There is a passage in the movie that describes the feeling of taking drugs, and people can't help but feel that this kind of thing can really make people forget their troubles and reach a state of bliss... I am a person with very unstable willpower, and there are times in my life that I want to forget all troubles The urgency of the situation, and sometimes I even fantasize about whether I will come this far. Tell yourself: keep the bottom line!

Although it is possible to quit, although there is a way out, what has passed cannot be returned. The lost youth, the lost feelings, the lost dreams... In the movie, Jim was originally expected to enter the NBA, but his future was ultimately defeated by himself. Although he eventually developed other things, I think the pain he suffered because of temporary enjoyment, is disproportionate. Physical pain from drug addiction, desperation of friends being imprisoned and murdered, the desperation of seeing others achieve their dreams, and enduring gay humiliation for money... Seeing the last paragraph is really touching, the prostitutes that Jim once spurned and Coach, I didn't expect that I would become such a person, and it also implies that Jim is in a desperate situation, and he is getting deeper and deeper...

Therefore, what should be touched and what should not be touched in this world, please keep the bottom line. There are thousands of ways in life, please take the right path.

Regarding the movie, I feel that the filming is not very in-depth, and the biggest thing to watch is the appearance of Xiao Lizi. I saw a short comment: "It's not a good drug drama, because the filming is not desperate enough", yes, about the story of drug addiction, I think the worse the ending of the movie, the better it can serve as a warning... Really don't dyed.

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Extended Reading
  • April 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    The intention is good, but the film is very rough, and many plots have deliberate traces. The growth of the characters seems rushed and unconvincing. There are many irrelevant content.

  • Zechariah 2022-04-22 07:01:29

    The story is the self-redemption journey of the low-level youth, which implicitly reveals that the stubborn disease of capitalist society, the low-level life has no social security, it is easy to repeat the same mistakes and vicious circles, there is no future, four best friends, only one escapes, and one saves himself. This is just self-salvation, a small choice in growing up, so cruel, the cannibalistic logic behind it has not been recognized, and it has quietly decided the direction of fate. It can be seen that young people have a social support network. The progress of civilization. However, many did not, and leaked into inhumans through the mesh, ideals rushed into the sewers, religion and the police became violent machines, screening qualified products; schools and families have been swallowed up by the whirlpool of selfishness, losing their original saving of youth human role. No one cares about the fall of one or two people. This is the logic of capital. It does not start from people to save people, but to use people from the perspective of profit. Before seeing this logic clearly, the two people were already dead. Under such absurdity, how can contemporary young people live to avoid becoming the price of development? Only self-reflection and conformity to society.

The Basketball Diaries quotes

  • Jim Carroll: I just wanna be pure, I just wanna be pure.

  • Jim Carroll: You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.