Is Jim Carey’s movie “The Mask” is a drug reference?
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He finds a strange thing on some dead guy in a bad part of town (dealer), every time he puts the mask on (does the drug) he goes crazy feeling invincible and isn’t very easily hurt, he hangs around odd parks late at night and even rubs a bank ( the high), at one point he throws the mask out the window (trying to kick the habit), but the mask flies back in (returning temptation), when he gets back to his appartment after work he tries to throw the mask away again but jumps on it and puts it on (falling for the addiction), all this time he is running from the police and bad guys with guns. Am I the only one who has thought about this? Or is it supposed to be that way?
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Answer by Commodus, Roma Satraps
It’s all up to interpretation. I see it the way you do as well.
Answer by CAGuy
Yeah, he stays up all night and his apartment is trashed the next day and he doesn’t remember a thing. Funny metaphor actually.
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Top 10 Movies About Drugs – sparetimelists.blogspot.com top 10 movies about drugs. I decided to include Leaving Las Vegas although it’s about alcohol addiction. Also, although Taking Woodstock is not a great movie and drugs are not the main theme, I put it here because of the great acid trip scene. 10. A Scanner Darkly (starring Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr.) 9. Brick (starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt) 8. Taking Woodstock (Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Demetri Martin, Paul Dano) 7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro) 6. Half Nelson (Ryan Gosling) 5. The Basketball Diaries (Leonardo DiCaprio) 4. Leaving Las Vegas (Nicholas Cage, Elisabeth Shue) 3. Candy (Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish) 2. Trainspotting (Ewan Mcgregor) 1. Requiem for a Dream (Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn) Music: The Phase – Dirty Angel
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