If only he'd choose better the films he works in. The Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American biographical crime drama film directed by Scott Kalvert and based on an autobiographical novel by the same name written by Jim Carroll. As he did in Gilbert Grape or This Boy's Life, he shows us how versatile he can be. Watch The Basketball Diaries (1995) Free Online - An adapation of Jim Carroll's memoirs of his decent from basketball star to heroin addict while in high school. His best performance EVER, plenty of different shades. or El Pico recreates much better what it means to be a drug-addict, they're much more explicit, more dirty, much harder.ĭiCaprio's performance deserves a new paragraph, 'cause it's simply astonishing. Maybe that's the strong point of Basketball Diaries, because movies such as Christiane F. is more poetic than the rest of the movies I named before, the voice over of DiCaprio's character is present all along the film, telling us about his thoughts (rather nihilistic's), with a style near to Burroughs or Jack Kerouac, urban poetry, tough and without ornament.
And this is supposed to be his autobiography (or the cinema adaptation of some diaries he wrote when he was a teenager, heroin-addicted). The dinstictive feature of Basketball Diaries is that the main character actually exists: Jim Carroll, a writer-singer-performer born in NYC in the 50's.
There may be differences in the form, and in the characters, but the content is always the same. That's what we see in Christiane F., El Pico, Trainspotting, Drugstore Cowboy. I mean, the story is always the same: a guy begins having drugs for fun, or because he's boring, or just because he's young and wants to try new experiences, then he gets hooked, starts to rob or to prostitute himself, and eventually ends up in prison. When you've watched plenty of movies based on some drug-addict life story you can't help compare them. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself.
Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin - all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim “picked up a game” now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. He can’t go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother’s mounting concern for her son. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach (“Swifty”) who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin - all of these begin to encroach on young Jim’s dream of becoming a basketball star. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim’s life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. Synopsis: Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll’s epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
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