Features William Burroughs, and reminiscent of his life and writing, though based on that of the director. A young man is both and alcoholic and drug addict. We see him stumbling around and lying in bed in a drug clinic. There is no further storyline and the film spends the rest of its time trying to summon up a drug trip alternating from black and white to colour with some dated 60s visual effects like a really lame version of Natural Born Killers. For a film that tries so hard to be weird, psychedelic and dream like there is little interesting imagery and the cinematography is rather bad. A great soundtrack and counter-cultural cameos (Allen Ginsberg, Moondog, Ravi Shankar, Ornette Coleman, The Fugs) are the only redeeming features.
1/5
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