Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Watched With: Alex, Jordan

Had to follow up The Rum Diary with Terry Gilliam's take. While I know I'm never going to get a straight narrative from some gonzo journalism I do appreciate Gilliam's visual style and his manic sense of chaos seems perfectly suited to this material.

The other thing it does is firmly embed these happenings in a time and place which helps understand the context immensely.

Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro are great and can alternate between hilarious and horrifying at the flip of a switch. And it's fun to spot familiar faces pop up along the way.

This film is exhausting and I also find something very sad about it. It has always intrigued me and it was great to watch again and this time on bluray, after a whole film to set it up.