Heath Ledger as an heroin addict (best script)

Last night I watched two films. The first one was Taken (Director: Luc Basson). It was again the only film to watch at the cinema next to my house. It was better than I've expected (I really had zero expectations from this film), but still. The action scenes were annoying, blurred with some ugly visual effect and cut way to fast to understand who was punching who. But it was clear the good guy (Liam Nissan, who looks here slightly like Al Bandy) will win. He only had one moment of trouble when the bed guys got him, but it only lasted 2 minutes and he got out.

There was no balance in the script of Taken - you get a slow begining with way too many scenes with the ex-wife and her husband, and some of our man's old service buddies, and then when the action starts he's all alone, no phone call from the mother or her powerful new husband, no help (besides one phone call in the very beginning) from his old buddies. Why did I need this excessive setup if it's not building to anything?

So we have here Luc Besson, and Liam Nissan, but a very bad script and bad direction. I'd say bad acting too, but it wasn't so bad to watch after all. The worst part is the end: when all is over and the poor girl is back with her father, she looks like someone who was just stuck in an elevator for a few hours, not someone who got kidnapped to be sold as a prostitute. Ok, so there might be some bad acting here after all.

The second movie was Candy, an Australian film that was on TV. It's about this couple and their heroin habbit, but it's so real that it just hooks you. The characters talk like people talk. They do drugs like people (with this habbit) do it. They love like people love. They get mad and depressed like us. It's so close, and quite sad. Excellent direction, great acting, original script. I loved it a lot. here is why we should be sorry Heath Ledger (who plays the boyfriend) is no longer with us.