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Pick of the Indies
Little Fish
JUNKIE movies often find a little time to glorify as they vilify: the characters in Trainspotting were given their own logos and catchy nicknames, while their adventures, relying on some false camaraderie, had a story line about wodges of cash stuffed in left luggage lockers.
Little Fish is at the other end of the spectrum.
Shot on a low budget with a big name cast, set in the down beat Little Saigon suburbs of Sydney that is populated with Vietnamese immigrants, it is not as shocking as the Kiwi classic Once Were Warriors, but has the same resounding social message.
The cast, which is fronted by Cate Blanchett and includes Sam Neill as a horrible dealer, keeping his customers satisfied with a greasy feel that makes you look twice at him.
Other names include Hugo Weaving and they make this world of gang crime and drug abuse a bleak and unfriendly a place as could be.
Tracey Heart (Blanchett) has been clean for four years – but the world of a former heroin addict is at times as bleak as that of a current user.
On every corner it seems there is the temptation to fall back in bad ways – and her will power is only so strong when drug deals appear in front of her.
And it is not the only complex relationship she has to deal with.
Fish is about the people who have to deal with the grip heroin has on the user, and how that grip is still tight when they have managed to wean themselves off the drug. |
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