This short films traces the history of opium and examines contemporary heroin trade and addiction in the United States.This short films traces the history of opium and examines contemporary heroin trade and addiction in the United States.This short films traces the history of opium and examines contemporary heroin trade and addiction in the United States.
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Paul Newman: [narrating] There are oases of comfort throughout the world. However, the earth offers few pleasures for most of its inhabitants. For his 10,000 years of grubbing a living off the planet, man has found life, for the most part, to be cruel. Disenchantment abounds. Fatigue, hunger and cold. However, nature, almost as an afterthought, softened her terms. She sprinkled the harsh earth with a variety of plants, each offering momentary escape, a passport from reality. Their protective effects have been known since the time of the ancients.
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Somewhat follow-up to A MOVABLE SCENE, this documentary takes a look at the heroin problems in America. We see how the products starts off, gets into the market and the various way criminals try to import it without getting caught. Paul Newman does the narration and he does a very good job with it. His certainly got a terrific voice so doing the narration adds a bit of class to the film, which is always a good thing. With that said, fans of his certainly aren't the main audience for this picture and it's mainly going to appeal to those who enjoy watching these propaganda films. For the most part I thought the film was well-made and entertaining. It's certainly one of the better examples of the genre as it obviously tells of the damage that the drug does but it also shows us how it's made and we hear about the various ways people sneak it into the country. The documentary claims that 50% of the heroin in this country goes to Harlem and the Bronx and then we get a brief bit on the drug wars in those cities.
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- Nov 30, 2012
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