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Contains drug addiction theme and very strong languageThe agony and the ecstasy: heartthrob Heath Ledger and breakout star Abbie Cornish (Somersault) tap their veins in Candy, a low-key Aussie love story about the highs and (mostly) lows of drug addiction. Candy (Cornish) is a young artist introduced to the high life by boyfriend Dan (Ledger) and his stash of Class A gear. No brooding Requiem for a Dream, it's a scrubbed up shooting up flick starring two implausibly beautiful junkies. Heroin's never looked so chic.
"The world's very bewildering to a junkie," whispers Ledger's voiceover as Dan and Candy spiral into love then addiction. Their first taste of what the godfather of gear William Burroughs once called The Algebra of Need comes soon enough: sensuous smack dreams turn into the nightmare of pawnshops, prostitution and shivery withdrawal symptoms. Too familiar for its own good, it could be a prequel to drugs recovery drama Little Fish.
"THE TRAGEDY RINGS HOLLOW"
Working from co-writer Luke Davis' novel, helmer Armfield proves better at the ecstasy than the agony. The giddy joys of getting high are beautifully played, from a hilarious car wash scene to a wedding day feast of burgers 'n' fries ("We're the coolest people in MacDonalds"). Geoffrey Rush delivers a fantastic turn as a Pied Piper chemist with his own brand of "Jesus Juice" and a love of videogames. Pity then that the grim tragedy of addiction rings so hollow (prostitution apparently no worse than doing a double till shift in Sainsbury's). It leaves Ledger and Cornish all smacked up with nowhere to go.
