luck favors the prepared.

The man adores the woman; the woman feels safe in his arms. The old lady has a small wish. The friends care for each other. Sunshine and blossoms. Everything seems alright. Life seems happy. However, their walk toward the ultimate crash begins as the movie starts. Harry, Marion, Ty, and Sarah—all they want to grab is happiness; yet their pursuit of ephemeral pleasure leads them into the eternal darkness.
Harry smiles a lot. Unfortunately, his biggest smile comes on his face when he injects drugs inside his vein. Marion is confident and beautiful. Sadly, her skin loses its luster as she cannot control herself from snorting cocaine. Ty, the young and healthy man has a lot of wishes that he wants to accomplish. Yet he experiences the loss of hope as he becomes a drug addict. Sarah desires to be on television. However, the obsession for gorgeous appearance makes her undetachable from the diet pills. All the main characters of the movie suffer due to their drug-addiction problem; however drug-addiction is not the biggest problem. They are lost–they fail to realize their initial goals of life, and we often tend to forget about them as well.

Harry, Marion, Ty, and Sarah are searching for bliss, the reason of their existence on the sphere, and the goal of life. We, humans, always chase behind such things. We all wish to be happy, and that’s the nature of mankind. Nevertheless, the characters of the movie are searching the goal and the reason in a wrong place through a wrong way. The film itself demonstrates little variety of colors through the screen. Such colorless ambiance attempts to symbolize the dark atmosphere of life of the drug users. A series of short scenes in which the camera captures the bright and showy screen of the old lady’s television demonstrate the pretentious elements of life and human society. We sometimes let ourselves to be gullible and be deceived by the world and what it shows. We sometimes fall for the meaningless surface values such as outer beauty which is only skin-deep and temporal excitement that lasts extremely short.

The movie continues to expose its audience to a single, strong melody. Whenever the music flows, intensity and tension grow. The music with its powerful beat and pathetic tone pulls the audience into the movie. The power of music in this film is astonishing. The ultimate message of the movie is simple and strong. Don’t do drugs. Yes, drugs do kill you.

A woman blubbers with immense amount of teardrops trickling down her cheeks. Then, I start crying as well. If she falls in love in an attractive young man, then I love also begin to love him. The woman is me; and I am the woman for about two hours. She is on the screen while I am sitting down on a red-colored chair.

Despite all the differences we have, I become the actress. To be more precise, I become the character while watching a movie. I am not a blonde like the beautiful lady on the screen. I have neither large eyes nor handsome nose as those of hers. However two of us are together since the beginning of the movie, and I see all the happenings from the character’s lenses. I face utterly new experiences by not only looking at the screen, but actually become part of the whole film.

To make me happy, not many things are required. A large bag of popcorn in my left hand with a cup of light-coke in the other hand, a huge screen with advanced audio system in front of me, and couple of friends sitting next to me—these are all I need to transform myself as a totally different person seeking for a brand new world that I have never faced before. A cinema is nothing else but a heaven. I see, feel, and become the film itself—it is how I enjoy watching movies.