Friday, 14 October 2011

Trash
(1970)

RATING:60%
FORMAT:DVD

Something-for-Nothing

Amusing-but-nothing-special movie about White welfare parasites; possessing no greater ambition than in wondering where the next heroin fix is going to come from and/or the next aspect of their culture they are going to whine about. This satire reflects a Western culture fixated on something-for-nothing to often telling effect.

The central conceit of a young stud - that all the girls fancy - being unable to satisfy anyone sexually because his heroin addiction causes impotence is repeated with varying degrees of success by an actor who is, himself, a sex symbol. (This proves that he is neither as conceited nor as concerned about his public image as are so many other male stars.)

The various episodes are variously funny and many scenes require a strong stomach to accept the repeated use of syringes for non-medicinal intravenous hard-drug use.

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