Broken (I) (2006)
7/10
Trapped in the Purgatory of the Broken Dreams
19 May 2008
Warning: Spoilers
The aspirant singer Hope (Heather Graham) leaves Cleveland to Los Angeles expecting to succeed in the career of rock-and-roll singer. She meets the funny Will (Jeremy Sisto) on the beach and they fall in love for each other. However, Will addicts Hope in heroin, destroying her dreams. Later, Hope escapes from Will, trying to put her life back on the trails and working as waitress in the Blue Star Café. However, one night she is caught by Will that wants her back with him to his life.

"Broken" is an original drama about lost dreams, where the non-linear plot is actually a bad trip of the lead character Hope. She is trapped in this café as if it were the purgatory of her broken dreams, reluctant to return to Cleveland as a loser that she is, while the clients are the possibilities or frustrations she had had along her life. The metaphor of the bright and dark lightning gives a good hint about the brilliant and vivid dreams she had or the dark nightmares of the world of the drugs of Hope. The performances of Heather Graham and Jeremy Sisto are awesome. My vote is seven.

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