COMFORTABLY NUMB
A film review by Nicholas Parrott
Copyright 1995 Nicholas Parrott
Welsh International Film Festival 1995
Idealistic young lawyer William Best leaves the security of his prestigious family practice to go to work public prosecutors office in Manhattan. Out on the town with one night with a colleague he meets and is bedded by the seductive Meadow Adare, little knowing that she is an escort girl and that the treat was paid for by his friend. Their relationship blossoms as she introduces him to a world of parties and hard drugs. But the heroin takes its toll and he is unable to live up to his high flying job.
Despite fine acting by the two leads this movie plumbs the depths of cinematic clichi. The idealistic ivy leaguer falling prey to the corrupting influence of the underworld; the hooker who starts dating one of her clients and; the power of drugs to wreck peoples lives. >From the moment she introduces him to heroin he hits a downward slope and never once looks like pulling himself off of it. The message, that smack kills, has been told before (although perhaps it needs telling time and time again) but in this instance the storyline is predictably told and halfway into the film there is little doubt what the outcome will be.
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