Drug Addiction
What links these films isn't genre but a shared fascination with dependency as a slow erosion of self—characters undone not by a single event but by the accumulating grip of a substance, a person, or an obsession they can't put down. Whether it's a soldier drifting into war's madness, a father reckoning with addiction's wreckage on his family, or a documentary subject describing the exact moment their mind stopped working, the through-line is deterioration rendered in intimate, often unbearably specific detail. Even the outliers—the satires, the parodies—circle back to the same wound: people chasing a high, a fantasy, or a fix that hollows them out from the inside.
