Trying to balance being a teacher and being an addict is
proving difficult for Dan (Ryan Gosling). One of his students, Drey (Shareeka
Epps), discovers his habit and the two become friends.
Drey comes across as quite lonely. Her mother is a paramedic
who is working all the shifts she can in order to have some money and her
brother is in prison, so she’s left pretty much to herself. One night she
catches Dan smoking crack in the locker room at school and she stays with him
while he goes through the effects. They seem to bond in that moment and from
then on the two care about each other. He tries to help her stay away from her
drug dealer friend but it’s obviously difficult for him to justify this since
he can’t function on a day-to-day basis without drugs in his system. He tries
to push her away but when he’s close to hitting bottom, she is there for him. It looks like he’s going to clean up and it seems to be because he
has her looking out for him. It just takes one person.
“Change moves in spirals, not circles. For example, the sun
goes up and then it comes down but every time that happens, what do you get?
You get a new day. You get a new one. When you breathe, you inhale and then you
exhale but every single time that you do that, you’re a little bit different
than the one before. We’re always changing. And it’s important to know that
there are some changes you can’t control but that there are others you can.”
8/10
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