Rock Bottom.Two new documentaries take well-discussed topics and manage to get under their skin--and under yours too. The first is Rock Bottom, the third film from director Jay Corcoran (after Life and Death on the A-List and Undetectable) documenting different facets of the AIDS epidemic epidemic, outbreak of disease that affects a much greater number of people than is usual for the locality or that spreads to regions where it is ordinarily not present. in America. Here, Corcoran follows several gay men struggling with crystal meth meth n. Methamphetamine hydrochloride. addictions: some recovering, some relapsing relapsing /re·laps·ing/ (re-lap´sing) (re´lap-sing) recurrent; denoting an illness that is characterized by periods of remission alternating with attacks of symptomatic disease. , and some only just beginning. One of them--a porn actor for Lucas Entertainment--brags about how functional he appears when high, but a glimpse at other subjects who once thought the same thing reveals men who lost jobs, boyfriends, and, in one sobering so·ber adj. so·ber·er, so·ber·est 1. Habitually abstemious in the use of alcoholic liquors or drugs; temperate. 2. Not intoxicated or affected by the use of drugs. 3. case, life. |
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