Analyze how the film Beautiful Boy opposes such depictions, taking on a more realistic.

Pure Political/Social Problem Film Analysis Beautiful Boy (2018) directed by Felix Van Groeningen

1.Pure Political/Social Problem Film Analysis Beautiful Boy (2018) directed by Felix Van Groeningen

Hollywood tends to treat drug use in films as comedic moments or glamorize and downplay the seriousness of drug use and addiction in films. For example: See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP5e2XJsB_4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmtVFQ3WF8)

Analyze how the film Beautiful Boy opposes such depictions, taking on a more realistic and educational view of the issue, by foregrounding more realistically, such risk factors as: mental illness, the hard reality of drug addiction on families and those
addicted, as well as debunking common beliefs/stereotypes that drug addiction is a
moral failing or a matter of choice.

Research Articles:
See: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/understanding-drug-use-

addiction
See: Interview with David Sheff

https://www.minnpost.com/mental-health-addiction/2014/01/beloved-son-fuels-his-

fathers-quest-understand-addiction-and-recover/

https://writingcenter.uagc.edu/first-vs-third-person

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/the_writing_process/thesis_statement_tips.html

https://writingcenter.uagc.edu/integrating-research