Candy (2006)

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A very underrated Australian film, candy delivers. This was based on the novel which is quite different from the film. A great movie that is very confronting at times, and also a tragic telling of what addiction amounts to. (By this time you've already read the synopsis of what this films about so i'll spare you.)I guess living near where this was set kinda touches home a bit. Top performances by heath ledger and abbie cornish (also worth a mention is geoffry rush and the parents of candy) Truly touching at times, with heath ledger narrating some moments in the film coupled by great performances and a great music soundtrack/score makes this one of my favourite Aussie films as well as my favourite films of all time. Definitely worth a watch, but quite a heavy film.

Two Lover's the world at the tip of there finger's, one thing separate's them from your average love story Heroin. The two are so deeply in love, and at the middle of there love is a drug that can consume the strongest of soul's. For all those that truly understand the power of this drug will be able to relate to this movie on a different level. This in my opinion is the best of it's kind. It really does show how this drug can completely turn someone's life upside down. I have seen what Heroin can do first hand, iv lost to many friends to this drug. This movie really hit's home for me. The drug is not only a curse for these to, its also a blessing in disguise. At time's when the two seem they will not make it through another day, the drug keep's there relation ship afloat.This is my favorite movie of ledger's(Dan), its not his usual role. He play's a lost poet in the movie who does what he can to make money. Through out the movie he struggle's with his drug abuse and his love for his high school sweetheart. Cornish(Candy) plays a girl lusting for love, and excitement. She goes to know end chaseing the dragon and looking for the next new high. All in all this movie is a depressing love movie of two young soul's who are lost looking for a day to day way to get there next fix. A great movie and a must watch!

I've seen this movie a few times now over the years, and each time it grows on me more and more. It joins the other few films of it's sort; Requiem for a Dream, Trainspotting, etc. Movies that treat drug addiction in a real sense are few and far between. The difference between these films and others is that the character's show the true desperation of such addictions.This is one of those movies that rely's heavily on it's performance's and in that respect Heath Ledger is amazing. The raw feeling that he brings to his character shows that he really was one of the best actors of his generation. Looking at the difference's is the roles he played from William Thatcher in "A Knight's Tale" and Sonny Grotowski in "Monster's Ball". Geoffrey Rush, who is one of my favorite actors, gives another of his famous performances that he makes his own. Hint to all the reader's out there if you see a role and can't imagine anyone else in that role, then that actor or actress has done there job perfectly.This sort of movie requires very little description here. It's about a couple and their friends that have an addiction to heroin. The dialogue that is given to describe such acts is almost pitch perfect for what it should be. Watching the quick view at the top and the slow but steady drop in despair is how these movies usually go. So sometimes it's no surprise what happens but in the way in happens is the real achievement in this film. When a film shows such depravity sometimes it disturbs me and it is no different here. However the difference here is that I actually had empathy for the character's on the screen.

Having seen Armfield's work in the theatre, Rush's on both stage and screen, and Cornish's in "Somersault", I came to Candy expecting big things. However, I found that the film took Australian cinema nowhere new. Once again we have the intrusive, over-used score, patronising the audience by telling us what to feel. Once again the long slow moments of blank faces. Our directors are never shy with clichés: we knew it was coming scene after scene. We could predict Cornish's hand to the mirror, the misunderstood angst of youth running from the clutches of a vulgar capitalist middle class. Here we go with the older generation, insensitive to the complexities of the artist and the poet, with outlandish expectations of stability and responsibilities.Cornish is very comfortable in the role of the angst-ridden alienated youth, where the camera loves her, and the long silences and often strident soundtrack make less demands of an actor than a script with depth and power. Ledger was as convincing in the role of the poet (albeit drug addled) as my mailman. Where was the script that enabled either of the two leads to convince us that they were driven by any kind of creative impulses. Artist? Poet? Were they even literate? The text of the voice overs was self conscious in a schoolboy poet way. But did Ledger's character read any books,ever? And as for Cornish as the tortured artist, come on! Her burst of creative literacy with the lipstick was one of the most unconvincing moments of the movie. Could this swearing monosyllabic drug addict really be hit so suddenly with the muse of poesy? Cornish is a talented young actress who demonstrated early, her willingness to work in the Australian film industry. She deserves more complex scripts, less clichéd roles and tighter directing.Did anyone else out there find Heath Ledger's voice-overs embarrassing and quaint? Did the director actually make him do that? I found Ledger's acting to be unsubtle and inconsistent. Someone should have noticed the shifts in accent and pitch, the over working of the facial expressions. Did I imagine it, or did someone choose to use Mozart's music in this film? Oh the mighty melodrama of it all. Isn't it time Australian film got past such self-conscious scripts. Time to move forward as film makers and learn a very powerful technique for making powerful films: subtlety and understatement. The best European directors discovered it decades ago!P.S. Did anyone do any research on sexual dysfunction and heroin addicts?