- Also Known As:
- Year:
- 1989
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Crime
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin. While he is on trial, his trophy wife, a former swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself. A politician tours the poppy-eradication project and returns home to find his daughter is a heroin addict. While trying to save her, and helped by a crusading attorney, he learns the limits of government policy. A peasant burned off his land where he farmed poppies, goes to work for a murderous drug lord.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Compassion | Destiny | Emotional repression | Guilt | Loneliness | Narcissism | Personal change | Political Correctness | Self-expression | Social class | White culture
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Review Format:
- DVD
Turning Poppy into Gold
The usual White whining about how terrible it is for Western Whites to be addicted to non-prescription drugs when this is entirely their own fault and responsibility.
This lack of human understanding extends to never exploring why so many Whites wish to take drugs in the first place and what this indicates about the state of White culture that so many of its adherents should wish to be affectively elsewhere.
The economics and the politics of drug-abuse is well-handled, however, and the fact that as drug-users fulfill their need to fill the vacuum of their lives, so drug traffickers and growers make the most money from exploiting the emotional emptiness of others.
The reason the War on Drugs failed is that the essential truths about the Western Demand for such drugs and the fact that interdicting the Supply of drugs will not eliminate the demand are being ignored. (Wherever there is a demand there will be a supply.)
The Hollywood remake (Traffic) is somewhat better because somewhat more honest.
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