Heaven Knows What is a depressingly lucid look at addiction, homelessness and desperation. The emotional turmoil, the dialog. Without it sounding cheesy, but everything felt so real. Edging on feeling like a true documentary at times. It's not easy to watch as it feels unrefined from the outside, but it is expertly crafted.
Directing is strong here, it's committed to drawing you into the state of mind that the people are in, it's claustrophobic and messy, mirroring the lives being lived, it creates this tunnel vision feeling. Their own little world, in which the big world runs around and avoids. There are some shots that feel truly like a documentary, filmed from a bit of distance, behind something, secretively spying on the lives of these people. Overall it creates a strong presence of being there with the characters.
The casting and characters are the highlight of the movie. Incredibly casting, and much more incredible performances all around. Just genuine, it felt genuine. And never anything else. Now reading a bit of the backstory, it's starting to make sense how they achieved this, the genuine feeling and performance.
Music is interesting, it's certainly something, weird, but intriguing. That said it's not a main element of the movie I would consider important. The movie could've been without music all together and have been just as good. It's the dreaded world these characters live in that provides enough of the ''music''.
This was a interesting movie to have seen. It's strong, though has some flaws. Memorable, but not something I'd ever consider watching again, just because it's so raw and real. I think it definitely provides some context and thought/feelings the next time you walk around a homeless/addicted person, besides the regular thoughts.
Directing is strong here, it's committed to drawing you into the state of mind that the people are in, it's claustrophobic and messy, mirroring the lives being lived, it creates this tunnel vision feeling. Their own little world, in which the big world runs around and avoids. There are some shots that feel truly like a documentary, filmed from a bit of distance, behind something, secretively spying on the lives of these people. Overall it creates a strong presence of being there with the characters.
The casting and characters are the highlight of the movie. Incredibly casting, and much more incredible performances all around. Just genuine, it felt genuine. And never anything else. Now reading a bit of the backstory, it's starting to make sense how they achieved this, the genuine feeling and performance.
Music is interesting, it's certainly something, weird, but intriguing. That said it's not a main element of the movie I would consider important. The movie could've been without music all together and have been just as good. It's the dreaded world these characters live in that provides enough of the ''music''.
This was a interesting movie to have seen. It's strong, though has some flaws. Memorable, but not something I'd ever consider watching again, just because it's so raw and real. I think it definitely provides some context and thought/feelings the next time you walk around a homeless/addicted person, besides the regular thoughts.