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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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  • 4.5/5
By Ankika Biswas

It is shocking and breathtaking as you live the life of Lewis Caroll through his journey to sobriety. The beauty and ferociousness of drug addiction can be understood through this, unravelling your inner emotions.

Time can be an excruciating process and to let yourself heal becomes an unbearable melody to the years.

DiCaprio is flawless and brilliantly portrays Caroll, in simple words, he does justice to the the character.

The song tracks are momentarily striking and portray exactly what the scene tries to convey. "Catholic boy", "down by the water" are some of the tracks you'd want to listen to carefully...

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