Yes, it's Gilliam and a very nice film to look at as a result.
BUT
This is just another film about addicts. Addicts are completely narcissistic. The only thing they respect is their mind alterning chemicals. They're compulsive liars. They put other people's lives in danger because they're too impaired to understand they are not immortal, that their mind is altered by mind ALTERING substances, that what seems "brave" and "edgy" to them is simply irresponsible.
These are little boys with too much money to buy drugs and anything else they "want." They have frail egos and drug induced delusions of adequacy.
And Saguero cactus doesn't grow on any road to Los Vegas from Hollywood.
Oh, was there a war in Viet Nam of which everybody was sick? Funny, most of the world's population found some other way to deal with it besides turning into chemically induced sociopaths.
How ignorant of us!
As for we needing "more bizarre" behavior like this; that's how we got the coke queen/drunk GW Bush in the White House, mumbling, "you're either with us or with the terrorists."
There IS no "American Dream." There's just U.S. propoganda. So, if anything died, it was the delusional thinking that propoganda brought on. And how do we deal with that, kiddies? Get loaded and disrespect and endanger people who've done you no harm.
When he threw change at the waiter and walked out without paying his bill, I knew just what kind of boy he was: Spoiled, addicted, narcissistic and abusive.
This isn't a film. It's a temper tantrum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Las_Vegas
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