get to play her.But the mere representation of addiction does not absolve “No Exit” completely. The film paints recovery as burdensome at best, offering little evidence against its nihilistic protagonist’s perspective.
The script even has her relapse in order to withstand her unhinged, nail-gun-wielding adversaries and to save little Jay. To have a complicated, even morally bankrupt addict as your protagonist is one thing; to torture her so severely as to paint relapse as a kind of salvation is another entirely.
Darby ends the film in a better place than she does in Adams’ novel, but such a neat ending feels insulting in the wake of such agony.
And since we don’t know precisely why she was alienated from her family in the first place, the film’s attempts to mend those relationships feel half-baked.
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