Beautiful Boy

Timothée's performance is great. I liked that you could see he really tried to quit drugs after hitting rock bottom, but there was always a part of him that pushed him back to them. I think that's exactly the internal struggle someone with any kind of addiction experiences: the memory of the sensation stalking you while you try hard to abstain from it to stop hurting yourself and your loved ones. I don't know why I stuck with the phrase that with drugs, his life had gone from black and white to technicolor. Although I am not familiar with drugs, it touched me because, in a way, we can all relate to how life can sometimes become overwhelming, and we look for ways to cope or distract ourselves from our very own bleak reality. I found it very human. It just moved me. I also really liked how they portrayed the helplessness and frustration of the father who wants to help his son escape addiction. How he even drugged himself to try to feel what his son was struggling with, and how he broke down in tears when he gave up trying to help him, recognizing he couldn't do it anymore. I also really liked the dialogue from a lady who said that when dealing with a drug addict, you are mourning the living because they are no longer there. That's exactly what the father was experiencing, as he kept recalling happy memories of when Nic was a kid instead of enjoying time with his teenage son in present time, since the son he knew was technically dead. Overall, it's a great movie that will definitely feel very personal to anyone who has gone through addiction or watched a loved one go through it.