Entertainment Medium Comparison Review
Watch Trainspotting (1996) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Comparison Reviews should focus on heroin addiction, use, and consequences.
– How is addiction portrayed in each film?
– Compare the depiction of heroin use (injection) in each film? Which presents a more powerful image? Why?
– How are the drugs effects depicted in each film?
– How do the addicts regard their family and friends? How is this possible?