Beautiful Boy Movie Download

8 / 10

“When you mourn the living, that’s a hard way to live.”
We all know the devastation caused by the abuse of drugs within families. “Beautiful Boy” makes the statement that it can happen to anyone without regard to family status. What’s particularly insightful watching the Sheff’s deal with son Nic’s (Timothée Chalamet) addiction, is that they never lost sight of who they were in relation to each other, and seeing the love that existed between each of the family members even during the darkest periods in Nic’s life. I wasn’t aware that this story was based on the real life history of David and Nicholas Sheff, drawn from the writings of both some time after Nic eventually became clean and managed to persevere, one day at a time, as drug users are apt to identify. This could have been a formulaic movie, and in some ways it is as it seems to prepare the viewer for the eventual tragedy that many times is the result of hardcore addiction. The most honest message that comes out of the story occurs when David eventually comes to the understanding that there was nothing he could do for his son. Each individual has to come to the realization themselves, that addiction is a one way street and the destination is nowhere. It would be rewarding if a movie like this could make a powerful enough statement for anyone contemplating drug use to just say no, but as Nic’s own experience suggests, an underlying sense of alienation and self doubt is often stronger that one’s will power.Read More