Is this worth anything? And this? The young couple is wandering around and root, is increasingly stressed, in the guy’s parents ‘ home. His father, styvmamma and younger siblings can come home anytime. Suddenly, he stops up, for a second only, he has received a vision of a printing on his father’s desk: ”What has happened to my beautiful boy?”, it says on the top line.
the Guy is the one-time sweet Nicolas Sheff, it has happened with him is that he had since he took the methamphetamine for the first time has been fixed. And now is well on the way to hell. The visit in the father’s house has evolved into a burglary in search of more money to ”meth” to shoot into the underarmsvenernas difficult infected wounds.
a draft to father David’s article ”My addicted son,” New York Times. That then became the book ”Beautiful boy. A fathers journey through his son’s addiction”. Which has now become the film with the Swedish theatrical release 11 January.
– After having lived with the Nics abuse, written articles, books and been interviewed more times than I can remember, I believed myself to be cured, but it was incredibly painful to see the film, ” says David Sheff on the telephone from her home just outside of San Francisco.
Nic Sheff and his father, David Sheff. Photo: James Gourley/REX
” It is clear that it is a good movie, and Timothée Chalamet, who plays Nic really felt like my son, the same patterns, the same småknäppa energy and everything. Still, it was strongest for me the reminder of the tremendous luck we had, Nic actually survived.
based on both his book and the Nics autobiography ”Tweak: growing up on methamphetamines” and it is not much of a spoiler to tell you that the Nic after a steady descent survived a självmordsdos on a dirty toalettgolv. He has now lived without drugs for eight years.
But it is not ”how it should go” this story is about, but how a heavy drug addiction sweeps up everything and everyone around the patient. It will be suspenseful anyway. It is the story of the constant lies, thefts from the småsyskonens piggy banks, arrests, relegeringar, ambulansfärder and emergency rooms. It is that the nightly phone calls from the police?, from the hospital? – it is to see their child rot away and disappear in the face even the eyes. Treatments and relapse, the hope, the disappointments and despair in an eternal loop.
perhaps its so far knepigaste role as a father, David Sheff. The model recognizes herself in most of the time, “he says,” and remember the meetings initially with the actor and director.
”Beautiful boy”, is on the sunny californian pictures that tell the on a special chemistry between the father and the son. The two browsing, garvar, reading and listening to music. Nic seems to multibegåvad and beloved of the decade, the younger halvsyskonen. There is also the divorce, which – as in reality – means that since the Nic was little, after every academic year, travelling from the father of San Francisco to his mother in Los Angeles. And so in the autumn back to dad again. A settlement not just to the benefit of Nicolas security.
“I have devoted so much time to examine myself, our divorce, upbringing, everything,” says David Sheff. What did I wrong, how was it Nic? But there are no answers, however a thousand overconfident advice: everything from the ”kick him out ”to “drop him, not out of sight”.
the journalist David Sheff (who was one of the last to interview John Lennon and from him, downloaded the title ”Beautiful boy”) researchade and wrote. Half the night he held on. Wrote and tried to understand. How does it work? How do they think? Where can he be now? How long usually it take before they die? It is not possible to save someone, I give up. No, I go out and look. And then suddenly, a telephone ring is detected: ”Pops, please, I need your help”.
– the Writing was like a therapy for me, ” says David Sheff. In any way, even for Nic, he won one more time The Ernest Hemingway Award for High School Students, which is the right is huge, and I think the writing was a contact with a clear thinking, he always wrote in a notebook, even during the worst years on the street.
Timothée Chalamet, and Steve Carrell plays the son, and the father in ”Beautiful boy”. Photo: Scanbox
” But I was almost obsessed with Nics abuse. After the book, I began to do research on drugs seriously. There are so many who have misunderstood the whole thing, one would think that if the user can be made to stop so it will be good. But their original problems are still there, and there is almost always an initial problem – a trauma, a deficiency or a disease – that allowed them to start again, says Sheff.
– Those people suffering from something and drugs are the only medicine that works. And that soon turned into the paradox – that which makes the life rages. Far too many imagine that drug addicts are just crazy and do not care about anything except themselves, but they are suffering incredible by feelings of guilt for what they do to themselves and those who love them.
how he took drugs as a young man. And with methamphetamine tried he but it was then never again. Then, in college, he had a friend who just kept using crystal meth after they expired. And who died on the night of his 40th birthday. Sheff thought gained first hand experience would serve as an additional valid alerts for the Nic. It was wrong.
” Ten gymnasieungar can try drugs. Some will become frightened and hiding, some think that it is fun to take every now and then – but the tenth carrying any of the risk factors, genetic or environmental, and this drug is the answer to everything. This helps no warnings. As for Nic, when he tried meth for the first time, he realized that he never had, so far, dimensions good.
36 and is medicated for bipolar disorder. Since he started his treatment he has not had any relapse.
– There you have ”The war on drugs” a failure, ” says David Sheff, with some heat. You see it as a crime and not a disease. The united states has spent a trillion dollars (that is 12 zeros, red’s note.) for four decades, and we have more addicts, more people in prison and more overdoses than ever.
– the Year my book was out dog 36.000 overdose in the united states, in 2017, it was 64.000. It is a hälsokatastrof, a growing epidemic, and we penalise the sick.
