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Movie Reviews of Candy
Movie Review: Candy
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an AMAZING film!!! What a complex love story and the chemistry between Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish is just incredible! Love it!Movie Review: amazing movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I received the video really fast, and its such a great product of flim. The actors, story and cinematography, all amazing.Movie Review: Powerful performances
Summary: 4 Stars
is why I'm giving this film 4 stars. I rented this, wanting to see Heath Ledger's work in the film...and on the strentgh of his performance alone...I can recommend this. It is difficult and almost haunting to watch, knowing this was one of his last films. I found it to be a very true and realistic story of love...and drugs...and the affect drugs have on their lives in the story. Dan and Candy (the actress who played Candy also gave gave a very strong performance) had so much potential...she was an artist, a painter...and he was a poet. But, as their drug addiction grows stronger...we watch their lives go deeper and deeper into a downward spiral. They try to get their act together and clean up when Candy becomes pregnant...but she ends up miscarrying the child...and their spirits are truely broken after that. Through it all, you can always feel Dan and Candy's love for each other...but the drugs get in the way...and they become other people...Candy eventually has a nervous breakdown and goes to a hospital to get better. While she's recovering, Dan is slowly getting his life back together too. We see him finally getting a job...working as a dishwasher in a chinese restaraunt and clean and sober for once. You get the feeling he is on the mend...getting better...but he is still stuggling...and missing Candy. The final scene is what really got me...I watched it over and over again...because it was that good. When Candy is released from the hosptital, she comes to see Dan at the restaraunt he's working at. The love that they have for each other is very clear...but in a heart breaking moment...and a scene that is almost hard to watch because it so real and honest...Dan breaks down...(Ledger is amazing in this scene...I was crying with him)...because he knows he has to let Candy go. With tears in his eyes, he tells her there's no going back...they need to remember how clean things are right now. Up until the ending, I was glad enough to just have rented the movie...but after watching the final scene...I knew I wanted it in my dvd collection...even if only to watch that scene again and again. I apologize for giving too much of the story away here...but I hope that you do give this movie a tyr. It is worth seeing. It makes me so sad to think that we won't be blessed in Heath Ledger's talent anymore...and I'm already missing all the films he will never get the chance to do.Movie Review: Everlasting love in a vial
Summary: 4 Stars
'Candy' is an Australian film, a love story between two junkies. The movie divides itself into three parts: Heaven, Earth, and He||. Dan (played by talented and memorable Heath Ledger - RIP Heath) and Candy (Abbie Cornish) have a love that's true. Their highs are high and their lows are low. At one point, after spiking up and nodding off during their wedding reception at Candy's parents, they sit outside McDonald's sipping chocolate shakes and declaring "We're the coolest people at McDonald's".
Their days are spent hitting up friends and family for money, stealing, hawking what possessions they have, and finally turning to prostitution to feed their heroin habits. They speak of the clean life, yet scoff at it when their next fix is due. Best friend Casper (Geoffrey Rush) winds out taking them in. Casper is their homo$exual father figure and sometimes provider. Dan and Candy's lifestyles go up and down, depending on their drug use. Candy confesses to a rent-collector that "I'm a prostitute and he's worthless, we don't have any money". Their lives deteriorate though pregnancy, miscarriage, and eventual nervous breakdown. Can a love this true withstand the trials of heroin, heartbreak, time, and tragedy?
The movie is based on the novel 'Candy' written by Luke Davies. (Watch for Davies in the film, in his cameo of the milkman) The novel is one of the best books I've ever read, Davies puts a whisper of poetry into his words, making them beautiful and hypnotic. While the movie stays close to the book, there is the added role of Casper, and the fact that Dan and Candy fight more in the film than in the book. Certain parts are left out, like the lazy day spent picking crabs off each other. If you like the movie, you really MUST read the book. The acting is superb in this film (what a tragedy to lose Heath Ledger). The costume designer captured the "look" of the addict, especially with Dan's greasy, unkept look. The script was well done and the atmosphere is perfect. Rent first, then buy. Enjoy!
Movie Review: White Candy
Summary: 4 Stars
Back in 2002 I went through a phase in which I wanted to read novels concerning heroin addiction. I read Ryu Murakami's Almost Transparent Blue, William S. Burroughs' Junky and Queer, and Hunter S. Thompson's, more about excessive drug use than heroin addiction, one after the other. I am not quite sure how I came across Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, but its green cover depicting nothing more than a couple of rusted spoons fascinated me and I purchased the novel and read it over a couple of days. I must say while the book was not quite as well written as some of the previous books that I have mentioned, Candy had some of the most grueling and wretched chapters that I have ever read concerning both withdrawal and filth that total addiction can become. (There was a scene in the book when the narrator had to pull out crabs from one of Candy's most private areas in the novel which, of course, did not make it into the film) Sow when I heard that Candy had been made into a film I was on it like white on rice.
Candy opens with Dan, Heath Ledger, a friend, and his girlfriend Candy getting ready to take some heroin. Dan chops up the dope finely with a razorblade for the girl to snort, but she tells him that she wants to do it his way by injection. Unfortunately after her first time taking heroin this way, Candy nearly dies, but is saved by Dan when he injects her with salt water. This brief scene foreshadows the downfall the couple will face, but their strong bond of love, as well as addiction carries them on and they eventually marry much to the discontent of Candy's white bread family. After their marriage, and as their addiction grows, the young couple begin to steal more and Candy becomes a prostitute to support their habit. When will it end?
Candy is a slow, meditative film on the horrors of addiction and how said addiction can not only destroy oneself, but those around one as well and while it might not be quite as hard hitting as the novel, it is still an example of some quite good filmmaking.