Mee zei:
Ik heb hem (net) kunnen uitzien, maar ik vond hem ook op niks trekken.
But it's about drugs so it's cool, right?
Het is ook enorm grappig.
Maar er zit wel degelijk een boodschap in, nl desillusie van de jaren '70 na het potentieel van de '60s, en het angstvallig hier aan willen blijven vasthouden tegen beter weten in (hence the title).
Wordt schitterend verwoord in de film trouwens:
"Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. But no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time in the world. Whatever it meant.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning.
And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. "
Fear & Loathing is veel meer dan een drugsfilm. Ik raad het boek aan, als je de film goed vond. Nog meer random madness
Bovendien is het de meest citeerbare film allertijden. Quasi elke regel tekst is hilarisch.
"Look, there's two women fucking a polar bear! "
- "Can I call you a cab? "
- "Sure, and I'll call you a cocksucker! "
"We can't stop here. This is bat country. "
"It's okay. He's just admiring the shape of your skull. "
"Castration! Double castration! "
"I was right in the middle of a fucking reptile zoo, and somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things."
"Dogs fucked the Pope... no fault of mine. "
etc
etc
