The saddest/most depressing part of this film?
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wylierichardson-966-922691 — 11 years ago(October 29, 2014 09:09 AM)
To me, the saddest, or at least the most disturbing part, was when Dirk had to resort to exposing himself to a "gay" guy, for pay, and then found himself getting the crap beaten out of him. That was the nadir of his life, for sure. It may allude to John Holmes doing 'gay' porn towards the end of his career.
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Lovetvshows — 11 years ago(November 18, 2014 01:06 PM)
The saddest part for me was Amber and Rollergirl getting high on coke in Amber's bedroom and Rollergirl asking Amber to be her mother. This scene showed the lack of parental care these people had in their lives.
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Negasonic_WoodChipper_Warhead — 11 years ago(November 23, 2014 06:24 AM)
Amber's breakdown in court gets me where it hurts. Julianne Moore makes you love the character and then you feel like crap when she's that hurt.
Also, Rollergirl's freakout when she stomps that guy from the limo she knew from before, you get the idea that her childhood was very, very painful, and he was a representation of it.
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edahlmano — 11 years ago(November 29, 2014 05:23 AM)
Yeah when Rollergirl stomps him and screams something like "you CANNOT touch me (or get to me)"
She really felt so emotionally raped.
Also when Dirk is kicked out by his mom. There is a whole lot of sad moving moments in this movie, and it really works every time. -
Suki_Akbar — 11 years ago(November 30, 2014 12:16 AM)
Difficult to say. There are so many heart wrenching scenes in this movie that it's hard to choose just one
Well, the part where Dirk gets jumped and brutally attacked by that thug and his buddies because they thought he was gay is really upsetting.
The deaths of Little Bill and his wife and her lover by murder-suicide always gets to me and the scene is so long and drawn out
Just about every one of Rollergirl's scenes also touched me especially the classroom testing scene where she gives up on herself and walks out.
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Junekids0204 — 11 years ago(February 27, 2015 06:13 AM)
When Buck got turned down for the loan because "This financial institution can not endorse pornography," and he keeps saying, "Stop saying 'Pornography'! I'm an actorI'm an actor!"
When Dirk/Eddie's Mom is yelling at him and berating him while his Dad listens from the kitchen, seemingly helpless to step in and defend his son. -
Errington_92 — 11 years ago(March 10, 2015 08:30 AM)
The sequence where it edits together Dirk's beating to Roller girl attacking her former class mate. Both scenes merged together convey the horrific downside of how the characters' lifestyles, how desperate and depressing it can be.
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beernpizzalover — 11 years ago(March 14, 2015 07:11 PM)
Well, that's how they legitimize what they're doing. If they were to get paid for screwing it would amount to prostitution. So, instead they get paid for 'acting' in porn - to side-step the law. In short, it's time to legalize prostitution in the U.S.!
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nikkilynn1982 — 11 years ago(March 23, 2015 02:39 PM)
The saddest part was the whole shift from the '70's to the '80's: one minute they're at the the disco dancing and partying, having a great time, then as soon as the '80's start it's nothing but murders and bad things happening. It was such a deliberately drastic change, like signifying the end of the fun-loving '70's.
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cataclysm1071 — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 04:49 PM)
Agreed. The depressing montages of the characters in the 80s, does signify the end of the free wheeling party that was the 70s. AIDS was a huge wake-up call as well as the just say no to drugs movement, which essentially made doing drugs, pretty unglamorous and people were getting sick from all of the unhealthy lifestyle choices of the previous decade
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SillyGayBoy — 10 years ago(October 28, 2015 01:42 PM)
I guess the beat up by a few guys scene should have bothered me but to me he did not seem that bad after.
The brain matter on the face thing was disgusting though. Yuck. Sucks 2 innocent guys had to die there, but maybe the one guy should not have pulled the gun.