My review of the film: "Most High", I was posting it on imdb, so figured I may as well put it on here too, if anyone even reads any of my stuff. :)

**If you haven't seen this film, there are SPOILERS I have written!!
perhaps i should start w/a synopsis of "most high"?
i'm not sure if that's what people want to read? well, no, the plot is already outlined on IMDb & anywhere
else that you look it up. so back to what i was saying about it being HARROWING: he, (julius, the lead character) REALLY and truly got it down, the "life" of a tweeker!! omg, i can't believe he gained 25 lbs
to start the film, then filmed it over TWO YEARS and LOST 100 lbs!!!
talk about passion and dedication! ps. i don't know if my review contains spoilers or not, but i checked the box just in case. i don't want to get in trouble w/the IMDb gestapo. haha. jk.
wait, i just noticed that on netflix the film release (or making) date said 2006,but on here it says 2004, i guess they are going by when he STARTED making it (w/all of the weight loss etc. being the time factor),
instead of the release date? anyway, marty sader/julius & the writer
and director, was fantastic, as i said he REALLY got the behavior down, along w/the paranoia, drug induced psychosis, the mouth movements (see: grinding), the hallucinations, the whole kit and kaboodle.
sadly, i have known meth users in my life & have witnessed much of what he put on film. that is WHY it IS so harrowing and tragic, sad, wasteful, you name every negative emotion and i'm sure it fits. supposedly speed usage is the biggest epidemic in our country & i don't doubt it, especially in southern and midwestern states, where it seems to be so prevalent, because there is "nothing" else to do for people and once someone is introduced to that drug (& this applies to most, if not all drugs), at the onset of usage, you apparently feel AMAZING! like you're king of the world, on top of the world, invincible, can do ANYTHING and plan to do anything! which of course you never do....
but then the rest of your time on the drug/drugs is spent chasing that initial feeling, which you rarely or never get, which i think speaks to many of the overdoses from drugs:  i'm sure people are thinking "oh if i
do MORE i will surely get that original feeling?" i can't say that i know if that ever occurs, not overdoses, of course those occur constantly,  but what i'm speaking of is the recapturing of that first HIGH, but i do know this: that drug is EVIL! pure evil. the first time you decide to partake in it, you may as well just
throw your life into the trash at that same moment, and kiss it goodbye while you're at it. same goes for heroin, which i think those (meth and heroin), are the top 2, MOST addictive and most dangerous drugs out there. though that bath salt deal in recent times is just crazy insane and i still can't wrap my head around THAT one!! WHO possibly came UP w/that idea? who possibly thought that THAT is a GOOD IDEA?? in ANY way? i also don't understand people wanting to be & feel BEYOND oblivion on any drug. you don't even know what is going on, you can't remember, you go into psychotic episodes, some are crazy & ruined for like or simply DEAD!!! not only WHO started it, but WHO jumped on that bandwagon? wow. just nutty. flat out nutty!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418903/
so yes, i'd recommend this film, it's DEFINITELY not the "feel good" film of ANY time, but it's quite sobering, no pun.
i noticed some people questioning/posting about the end, what did it mean? i thought it was pretty apparent. it seemed that he and his girlfriend were at a rehab type facility and possibly about to start getting clean. the dream sequences were his dreams of his "normal" future, of having the "leave it to beaver" type american dream lifestyle. which may be possible for him in the future, though he was pretty tore up in the last half or third of the film, but nothing is impossible!
okay now THIS is definitely a spoiler: when the ambulance carrying the girlfriend to the hospital, RAN INTO THEM, or over them, though they kind of dissipated into molecules or whatever you want to call it.....was symbolic of his daydream/dream being crushed by the reality of what was going on in actuality, and that he/they were possibly getting clean, or starting the road to getting clean: hence the interviews throughout the film showing people discussing THEIR roads to recovery and being clean.
i think it was really sad that he so unfairly lost his job that he had a unique talent for, (due to that Dr boss' a-hole EGO BS!) RIGHT after losing his adopted "father" whom he adored and who adored him, and his girlfriend as well, whom he was already disconnected from. so it set the stage perfectly for him to go down the worm hole, as he did.
something that REALLY pissed me off, was that the girlfriend who INTRODUCED him to drugs & other nefarious things....the scenes where she set him up to rip him off & he discovered that she had stolen the $25 grand from him, and yet he was TOTALLY okay w/it, didn't even mention it. i thought it was sweet of him to love and want her regardless & THAT takes a lot, a good man, no matter how spun out he was, to completely overlook & accept what she did for him, because to him love was love & he loved her unconditionally, so THAT was what was sweet about it, not many, or any people would be so kind. on the other hand he SHOULD have been pissed off at her & that should have been the final sign to him that she was just a USER, in every way, shape and form & was not good for him or ANYONE!
i found the voice overs VERY interesting, quite profound, those more so at the beginning of the film, (because by the end he was basically impossible to understand), how we ALL have our vices (& addictions), which is for damn sure! and he was a drinker at that point. would drink to celebrate, for when he was depressed, for any occasion, because that is what we are TAUGHT in this country *the US*, or many countries, go home after work and unwind, be it alcohol, food, shopping, drugs, love, sex, they all have propensity for addiction, and as i mentioned, i believe that most of us ARE addicted to one thing or another. many don't realize it, or let's say WANT to realize it. we all have and need escapism.
so in essence i think this film was a painful to watch commentary on our NEED for excess, be that whatever you use to excess.
not to ramble on forever, but what i find surprising is that i've not, to my knowledge, seen marty/julius before in anything, and that there is such a huge amount of time between each of his works, whether it be acting, directing or writing. i think he's a very talented guy!
yes, i would recommend watching this film. it's a cautionary tale at the very least. GOOD JOB Marty sader!!
ps. speaking of the length of time between each of his projects, not many, i even wondered (because of the realism of this film), if he HAD been on speed, to TRY for more realism & also to lose the 100 lbs and so on. that would be above and beyond method acting though. i know it sounds ridiculous, but the thought DID occur to me! it's also unfeasible though because HOW would he direct, act, write, etc. while being all spun out on meth? not very likely.
those are my thoughts on this film, having just watched it,(i even have more, as shocking long as this review is, but i will stifle the rest, as i've gone on MORE than long enough & i don't need to bore anyone any further :P).