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List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $2 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Special Edition • NTSC In Theaters : 23 August, 1968 DVD Release : 28 December, 2004 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | A chopped up version of Alice and not much of a plot in either flick...sigh |
| This DVD contains two films entitled Alice in Acidland and Smoke And Flesh. The movies both deal with the ramifications of using heavy duty mind altering drugs with some good but mostly bad consequences for the users in their real lives as well on their "trips." The cinematography is not anything special; and the choreography could have been written by a film school student.
Alice In Acidland explores the drastic downward spiral of Alice who is exposed to mind altering drugs by a teacher at her junior college. Alice, once the "All American Girl;" slowly but surely descends into an increasingly psychotic state as a result of her drug use and eventual drug addiction. The movie also makes the point that this drug use leads to promiscuity; and I suppose that was rather scandalous "front page news" at that time. The real tragedy, however, is drastically displayed as Alice loses control of herself and her mind whenever she takes the drugs. The scenes from Alice's most memorable drug trip are in color; but then you get the final shot in Alice In Acidland. This last scene is intended to be a shocker so I won't spoil anything for you here. Smoke And Flesh explores the topic of how drugs can work for some good but mostly bad consequences. Yes, the drugs reduce inhibitions to romantic relationships; but the "bad trips" the people go on make you wonder if it was worth it. Smoke And Flesh has more of a plot than Alice In Acidland which simply shows young ladies using drugs and then getting themselves into situations that they otherwise wouldn't have experienced. Smoke And Flesh goes further; it starts out as a party with drug use and then adds in a biker group to crash the party and cause problems for the partygoers. The cinematography is much better with well thought out scenes and camera angles; and the characters are more developed and interesting. I agree with the reviewer who liked the scene where the couple takes off their clothes as the camera films only their ankles from underneath the bed. I also agree with the reviewer who writes that this DVD gives you only a chopped up and edited version of Alice In Acidland. There are very noticeable gaps in the film made obvious by abrupt and instantaneous scene changes and breaks in the narration of the film. This may irk you so I thought it would be important to mention this. Overall, these middling and melodramatic films try to make to point that drug use could lead you down the road to big, big trouble. Indeed, a friend of a friend of Alice's ends her life during a "bad trip." Alice herself must pay the price for taking drugs. In Smoke And Flesh the trouble takes the form of the biker group crashing the party and causing trouble. These films are best perceived as sensationalistic films without much meat on them to make the point that drug use can be good but mostly bad; there's almost invariably a price to be paid when one uses mind altering drugs. Things in both movies get out of hand rather quickly and the problems don't always have a happy resolution. Smoke And Flesh, however, is decidedly more upbeat in its handling of drugs while Alice In Acidland appears to have been made to scare younger people into avoiding drugs. I liked the idea of human life as expressed through the lives of the fish in the aquarium near the end of Smoke And Flesh. I recommend these films for people who enjoy films from the Something Weird series. People who want to watch movies about the dangers of drug abuse will also like these two movies. |
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