Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas |
Terry Gilliam / USA / 1998 / Johnnny Depp, Benicio del Toro |
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" Samuel Johnson. Maverick journalist Hunter S. Thompson's hilarious, freewheeling, drug-soaked novel finally crawls and onto the screen, aided by the performances of Johnny Depp as Hunter, and Benicio 'Fenster' del Toro as his Samoan lawyer. The ill-matched pair's appetite for hallucinogenic drugs diverts them into an odyssey of excess, 70's acid rock, and the savage heart of the American Dream. It's been a long time since the last psychedelic road movie, and it's a good one.
|