Word: addictions
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...Grams has the narrative brazenness of Mulholland Dr. But this time it's for real. As a recovering drug addict who suffers a brutal shock, Watts must navigate between numbness and steely rage, mourning and the stirrings of a romantic interest that seems the worst form of betrayal. While co-stars Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro get to strut and spume, Watts has to implode. She does it with a heartrending delicacy and power. To watch her here is to see America grieving...
...drug-rehabilitation camps that are blossoming all over Yunnan. A drug user picked up by the police is often forced to serve a mandatory three-month sentence in a rehabilitation camp, where calisthenics, lectures and daily treatment with a Chinese version of methadone are supposed to curb the addict's habit. Up to 20% of the inmates, by the guards' rough estimates, are HIV positive; because they are registered by the police, they can be tracked after they leave the camps. Eventually Ho wants to find and monitor 500 HIV-negative patients in the Mangxi area who are at high...
Kathy (Connelly) is a woman in disarray. She's a recovering drug addict who cleans houses for a living and--a fatal flaw--lets her mail pile up unopened. Colonel Behrani (Kingsley), late of the Shah's Iranian air force, is her opposite. He's got it all totally, tightly together. He has one job on a road-construction crew, another as a convenience-store clerk. And he is, by hook or crook, eventually going to give his family an American life comparable in privilege to the one they enjoyed in the old country. Specifically, that means a house near...
...cell phone. Even Tsang's assistant, shaking her head in fear, refuses to interrupt him. Finally, Tsang punches the end button and walks back across the street to where the photographer is waiting. As he strolls, his features melt back into the familiar, cheerful expression that any TV addict knows so well. By the time Tsang steps before the lens, it seems all the brightness a photographer might ever need is emanating from Tsang's signature toothy grin...
...fatherhood, certain things shift just because of age." One of those things is that he no longer goes out to bars simply to prove that he is not too famous to go out to bars. "I am a famous actor," he says with the grim acceptance of a recovering addict...