Addiction

The first little segment is about a man named Bobby (Frank Franconeri)who pretty much has a good life. He has a beautiful wife and a decentjob .Things seem pretty copesetic. Even with all of this he’s still alittle stressed so Bobby and his wife Lisa (Mim Granahan) plan a tripto just, ya know, get away for a bit . Really the only down-falls Bobbymight have is that he’s sort of a pushover and always has been or,hiscousin Frankie (Joshua Nelson, also the writer) who is addicted toheroin, and just got out of the joint keeps coming around . He begs Bobto help him out a little, and Bob shuns the idea that Frankie might beback on Heroin, but helps him anyways. One night after getting off workon his way home Bobby gets mugged. He fights with the guy and ends upkilling him. Not knowing what he should do he runs back to his officeand site for a while to think things over. Bobby freaks out with hisfirst brush with this new experience, he has a rush of feelings he’snever felt before, and he doesn’t know how to handle them.

On deciding to keep it to himself he returns home to a very differentlife than when he left that morning. Bobby finds he’s become aninsomniac, and the only way for him to sleep is to quench his newundying thirst for murder. So he get’s up and goes to the park. Whilethere he talks to a bum who is complaining that he doesn’t want to liveanymore, Bobby asks him " are you sure you wanna die" the man agrees soBobby obliges. Bobby is slowly loosing control of his life at thispoint and everyone including his wife believes that there is somethingseverely wrong with Bobby.

Frankie takes the money he got from Bobby and pays a visit to hisdealer. Begging for more time to get the rest he’s just put himselfinto a hole he may never be able to crawl out of. These guys meanbusiness. Frankie comes up with all sorts of crazy stuff to get out ofhis debts. He even whores his girlfriend out to the pusher to buy moretime. Throughout addiction we meet Ruthie (Lydia Fiore). Ruthie can’tseem to hold a job very long due to her gutter mouth, and doesn’t knowwhat she’s going to do to support her daughter. She talks with a friendone night about watching her daughter so she can pull tricks again..She feels like that’s all she’ll be able to do from now on, that ,that’s all she’s good at. I believe Ruthie holds a very dramatic partto this film and was pretty much the turning point within.

So as you can see addiction is not what you’d first perceive it to be.O no it’s much better than just what the the title says. This movie hadmy attention the entire time; as I was butt firmly planted in the chairwith eyes wide open. The acting was so superb; it only made the storythat much more enjoyable, which was tremendous to begin with. Justwatching Bobby go further down the spiral, and see his life spinningout of control was just pure creepy . Slowly he’d get snappier, andmore restless, until he reached his breaking point where there was noreturn. Addiction is full of tension and eerie thought provokingscenes. I’ts been nice to watch a movie where you didn’t have yourtoken slasher of much blood. Just a plain eerie twist of events thattie each other together. I guess the thing that makes addiction such agreat movie is with the exception of Bobby’s actions these are allpeople we either know or have heard of. That addictions can be in everyhousehold in one way or another. Even the supporting cast would makethis movie worth the watch. The superb team of James Tucker and JoshuaNelson’s effort of Addiction just shows us what we can expect fromthese guys in the future.Murder becomes ones passion. Ones obsession.Ones compulsion.