Blue Bag Life

  • Documentary
4/7/2023
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When love and addiction collide.

A daughter is searching to understand her mother’s absence: were they ‘estranged’ because of heroin, or did their separation run deeper than addiction? The daughter falls in love, but he too brings heroin into their home.

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  • Geronimo1967

    I usually find that documentaries that are made either directly or closely involving the subject are prone to a lack of objectivity - and I'm afraid I think this fell into that trap. It tells us of the fairly difficult life of Lisa Selby, a woman whose relationship with just about everyone of import in her circle of friends is/was tainted by addiction. Her only surviving video recording of a chat with her mother demonstrates that clearly as she discusses her preferred form of opiate. We're similarly introduced to her boyfriend Elliott who has tried to get clean but still has a love hate relationship with heroin. As it progresses, we are exposed to the grubbiness and squalor of existence when the next fix is all that matters, but we are also...

    January 3, 2024

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