Ecstasy

Ecstasy is an excellent HARSH Canadian film that uses drug consumption as the vehicle to explore loneliness, fear, despair, beliefs, friendship... If you think "Requiem for a dream" is a tough film, be warned that it seems like a comedy when compared to "Ecstasy".

Apart from drugs, the other main topic in the film is Religion, and both of them serve a similar function: escaping from reality. The drugs induced escape lasts just for a short time before turning against the escapists and devouring them, the negative effects of the religious flight are not shown in the film, really, there's not an anti-religion stance in the film, except for the fact that the priest tries to keep up his audience by putting drugs in the wine used for the communion!!! the idea is interesting (reminds me of some old stories about food in Hare Krishna restaurants... well, I've been in several Govinda restaurants throughout Europe and I've never left there in an "altered state") and it fits pretty well with the idea of Religion as a collective hallucination...

I don't feel like writing anymore about the plot, you just should watch it and enjoy (or maybe suffer) it, so I will only add that the soundtrack is pretty good, both the "danceable electronic" themes and the "depressive introspective" ones.