Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas was a drVg-fuelled escapade (first time watching)

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Why is this? May I have a little kiss? What? I'm very lonely here. Oh my gosh.  No wonder he was being so nice.

[00:00:15]What's up, guys? It's your girl Mary. If  you're new here, welcome. If you're a returning subscriber, welcome back. Today, I'm going to be  watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This one was released in 1998 and it is directed by Terry  Gilliam who also directed the Montipython and the Holy Grail. Wrote Montipython's Meaning of Life. I  haven't seen a lot of his work. I'm I'm not going to lie. But I mean Montipython's a funny movie.  This one has been listed as a dark comedy. An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer  travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. So, it seems like a bit of a stoner  movie, judging by the poster for this movie, too. It of course stars Johnny Depp, Benio Del  Toro, and yeah, I'm stepping into it blind, but I'm excited for I've seen quite a few stoner  movies on the channel so far. Check those out if you would like to. And if you're excited  for this reaction, please give it a thumbs up. Subscribe for more content like this. If you  guys are wanting to watch the full movie with me, you just need a copy of the movie and a  membership to my Patreon, which is always in the description bar, the pin comments down  below, where all my social media live and my two other channels. So, with all of that said,  let's get into Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

[00:01:38]He who makes a beast of himself gets rid  of the pain of being a man. Dr. Johnson, when the drugs begin to take hold. Whoa,  that is a nice car and a nice cactus.

[00:01:52]Look at the way he's smoking.  And a voice was screaming, "Holy Jesus, where are these goddamn animals?"

[00:02:01]Oh my gosh.

[00:02:09]We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets  of masculine. Masculine? Never heard of that. There is nothing in the world more  helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.  Ether binge? Never heard of ether before.

[00:02:26]I will help you poor fool. Those are some  strong hallucinogens. Let's keep the boy lift. What? No, we can't stop here. This is bat country. Bat country. He's still  going on about them damn bats. Get in.

[00:02:53]This guy kind of looks like Elijah would a little  bit. Would he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge  manays coming down in the car? Manta rays. There's one thing you should probably understand. Can you  hear me? I want you to have all the background.

[00:03:09]This is important. God damn it. This is a true  story. Far out. Oh my god. You freaked out the driver, dude. Jeez Louise. My brief. He's a  foreigner. I think he's probably Samoan. He does not look Simone because in spite of his  race, this man is extremely valuable to me.

[00:03:27]In spite of his race, I forgot. How about  some ether? What? Never mind. Truly, the driver does not seem like an attorney. From the  brutish realities of this foul year of our lord, 1971. 1971. I was wondering what time they  were exactly in. As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. Then  you'll need the cocaine. He's a great attorney.

[00:03:55]He didn't pay. But the car and tape recorder  were not easy things to round up at 6:30 on a Friday afternoon in Hollywood. Wow. You simmon  are all the same. You have no faith in the essential decency of the white man's culture. I  wonder why he won't correct him. Hey, Mr. Duke, we're all set up. If I can just get you John  Hancock, you're on your way. You're John Hancock.

[00:04:15]I'm guessing that means signature. I've never  heard somebody say it like that. No, no, no, no.

[00:04:23]Far out. You fellas haven't been uh  drinking, have you? Uh I think it's pretty clear that they have. But only for  those with true grit. And we are chalk full of that now. Damn right. He's just  like, "Oh my god, whose car did I get in?

[00:04:52]What? This man has a bad heart and  China pectorus, but we have a cure for it. Here you go. Big whiff, sunny boy."  They are quite the characters, aren't they?

[00:05:10]Oh my gosh. Man's sweating  in the corner over there.

[00:05:17]They just need a sign, a direction. You  want a scum sucker like that can get away with sandbagging a doctor of journalism? Can  you tell me that? Doctor of journalism. Oh my god. Right. I like you guys. Don't worry about  me. I can have a beer. That is pretty hilarious.

[00:05:36]Better be careful. They are so volatile.

[00:05:45]She's a lady. I'll remember your face. There  is no way explaining the terror I felt.

[00:05:55]Wow. Okay. Be quiet. Be calm. He is  truly not okay. He could try being sober.

[00:06:03]Your suite isn't ready yet, but someone was  looking for you. Oh my gosh, this is a horror.

[00:06:10]This man suffers from a bad heart. I thought  it was you that suffered from the bad heart.

[00:06:19]Take that cigarette just never goes out.  It's always the same size. It's hilarious.

[00:06:26]He's like, everyone's laughing at me.  Impossible to walk in this. The floor is lava. Oh, I did not expect  that. He's wearing a bald cap.

[00:06:44]Oh, look at that. A lot of  cool practical effects here.

[00:06:54]I was right in the middle of a reptile zoo.  Somebody giving boo to these guys. First it was the bats. Now are these monsters. That's the  press table. Man, you're going to have to sign in for her credentials. I don't know how they're  like allowed in this place. The state of their mental health. Come on, hurry up. You scare the  out of those people. They were ready to call the cops. They came back in time. 100%. Hey, at least  he's keeping him kind of accountable. Yamahas, DMC's. Oh, this isn't a good vision to be having.  Mint 400 is a far far better thing than the Super Bowl, the Kentucky Derby. Whoa. In the world, we  were after all the absolute cream of the national sporting press. When it comes to a thing like  this, you don't fool around. No. Wow. Now I feel like I'm I don't know why it just gives me like  Mad Max, even though it's not post-apocalyptic.

[00:07:58]$50,000. Wait, $50,000 mint. All  right, here we go. Mint 400 race. No, I don't actually know what  the prize money would be, especially in 1971. Have you seen the race  by 10? So dusty. They were spread out. It was no longer a race. Now it was an endurance  contest. Can't even see anything. Come on in.

[00:08:27]Yeah. How are you getting photos? Where's a damn  race? Beats me, man. We're just good patriotic Americans like yourself. But what now? What comes  next? Can't park. Hey, you can't park your car here. Is this not a reasonable place to park?  Reasonable? You're on the sidewalk. Sidewalk.

[00:08:54]You can't park in the sidewalk. Wow. Seems like  a hot ticket, sir. They're pretty annoying, huh? They seem to grind a lot of people's  gears. But equally, a little private. Why not?

[00:09:11]Jeez, how do you live this way? After a lot of  bad noise, he let us in for nothing. Provided we would stand quietly at the back and  not smoke. That seems reasonable. Hey, what the hell is going on? Whoa, that did  not take long. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish  novel. Total loss of all basic motors.

[00:09:34]Which is interesting because you can actually  watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it. They could stop. Ether  is the perfect drug for Las Vegas in this town.

[00:09:44]They love a drunk. I've never heard of ether. I  feel like I need to Google it. Highly volatile and sweet smelling liquid. Historically used  as a general anesthetic and now commonly used as a solvent as a recreational drug abused via  inhalation or ingesting causing intoxication, psychological dependence, significant  hazards including gastrointestinal issues, coma, and high risk of death from overdose. That's  crazy. Widely used in the 19th early 20th century as an anesthetic drug using the 30s prohibition  and alcohol substitute. So, it's similar to severe alcohol intoxication and leads to rapid loss  of consciousness. Okay. Well, it makes sense.

[00:10:26]You know, the way that they're behaving, it was  hard for me to, you know, recognize that. I'd never seen somebody intoxicated from ether. But  it is very uneasy their vision, their behavior.

[00:10:45]A say whatever you want, fella. Oh, they'll hear  you. All right. You'll be 200 ft tall. Jeez, so annoying. The acid was long gone. Good.  But the musculine was running strong. Oh, this is serious. One more hour in this town, I'll  kill somebody. Jeez, they need help. You better take care of your friend. Madam, sir, baby, child,  whatever. Baby child. This should be enough for guys. Don't give up. Oh my gosh. They really know  how to act like intoxicated people very well. Stop it. Stop it. It's not ever going to stop. Don't  move. You'll come around. Just constantly always just taking care of each other. Don't run, man.  This is not a good town for psychedelic drugs.

[00:11:36]Extremely menacing vibrations were all around  us. I probably should, man. It's quite well lit.

[00:11:47]You mean that little uh blonde groupy  with the film crew? Think you sodomizer?

[00:11:54]Jesus God Almighty, man. Where'd you get that  big? I would be scared if I was him. I needed something to cut the limes, man. The limes.  They didn't have any. You don't grow in the desert. Such dangerous behavior. Had a chance.  So violent with that. We'd had a problem with her in the elevator a few hours earlier.  My attorney had made a fool of attorney.

[00:12:21]Kind of looks like Cameron Diaz, though I know  it's not. You must be a writer. Maybe it is.

[00:12:30]Oh, it is. Getting a little footage on  the race for television series. She's so sweet. We're with the uh factory  team. What? Doesn't believe him. Got smoking in an elevator. Keep trying, jerk off. Keep trying. You want to  impress me? Oh, me. Oh my god. Okay.

[00:13:00]Uh, okay. We'll wait for the next one.

[00:13:10]Police are coming. Well, I mean, so they should.  She fell in love with me, man. Eye contact. You wish, buddy. You wish. I'm going to go get the car  wash. One of the things you learn after years of dealing with drug people. Drug people. But never  turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor sharp hunting. Right. Smart, I  guess. I'm glad he learned that over the years.

[00:13:34]Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of  some kind? Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? I still don't  believe he's a doctor of journalism or that the other fellow is an attorney. That's you. Not  quite. Don't with that man. He is truly a mess.

[00:14:01]They truly live in chaos. All right.  He's being a good friend, you know, not abandoning him in his time of need. You  want me to throw this thing into the tub when White Rabbit peaks? Is that it? Oh my gosh. Stop  that. Oh, god damn it. You're wasting my time.

[00:14:29]What a bizarre duo. Truly bizarre.

[00:14:38]Oh my lord, it's so stressful being them. Now  you want to kill me. What I should do? Goddamn is call the police. Was there anything about  slicing you up? I just wanted to cut in your forehead. That's crazy. Get back in the tub. Eat  some reds and try to calm down. Eat some reds.

[00:14:57]Some grass. Shoot some smack, man. Do whatever you  got to do. Just do more drugs. That'll fix you.

[00:15:06]Okay. Drill sergeant.

[00:15:11]He's really putting his foot down. You scurvy  shy. I'm a doctor of journalism. He loves to say that. My attorney had never been able to accept  the notion that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for  that matter. Wow. This is edited really cool.

[00:15:31]to love. Don't love Was this what the 70s was  really like? Please let me know in the comment section below. Uh, clearly I was a victim of  the drug explosion. I decided to eat only half of the acid at first, but I spilled the rest on  the sleeve of my red woolen shirt. I'm sure you could savor that. Is OSD They did a really  good job with his hair. Johnny Depp's hair.

[00:16:07]Jeez.

[00:16:11]Uh, he's like, I'm out of here. There was  madness in any direction. You could strike sparks anywhere. Not in any mean or military sense. We  didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail.

[00:16:24]I love all the riding the Good morning, sir. The  craziest party. What do you want? He's always threatening people. That rotten attorney of mine,  Dr. Gonzo, was gone. He must have trouble. Panic.

[00:16:37]It crept up my spine like first rising vibes of  an asset frenzy. He has so many feelings that he relates to when he's high. I had a gigantic  goddamn hotel bill to deal with. You can't hide.

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[00:17:34]He's pretty pissed off at this point. My  manager, Mr. He would like to meet him.

[00:17:38]Mr. He likes to meet all of our large accounts.  Uh, uh, large accounts. I would leave the doctor alone until after he's eating his breakfast  because he's a very crude man. Jesus God.

[00:17:52]This guy is so annoying, but I love it. I've  got to get to the race, you know. But there's no hurry. The race is over. Not for me. Not for  me. Have lunch. Radio, man. Radio. He finally got away. Holy moly. Bad waves of paranoia. Madness.  Fear and fear and loathing. Title of the movie.

[00:18:16]Oh, great. Oh, you evil. He's  like high and probably drunk.

[00:18:26]How are you? Good morning. Few people understand  the psychology. Oh wow. Highway chase. Now your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull  over to the side. This is wrong. Jeez. But he won't know what to make of your blinker signal  that says you're about to turn right. This is to let him know you're pulling off for a proper  place to talk. Right. Race for the G. Fast heel toe. He is dangerous. Hi, how are you? So casual.  Oh my gosh. It's me. Who's he? I knew I was so polite about that though. He's like,  "It's me. May I please have that?" I knew it was a crime. I did it anyway.  Why argue I'm a criminal? Look at me.

[00:19:17]I have a feeling you need to take a nap. A  nap? I've been awake for too long. Three or four nights maybe. Trying to remember. So, he's  like reached insanity at this point. I advise you to proceed to the next rest area. Stop.  I think he's being nice. City limits in 2.2 miles beyond the rest area. Can you make it that  far? I'll try. This isn't a negotiation. Guy, your kind of mind ought to try to land crab. Why  is he being so nice to him? Everything all right?

[00:19:50]This is weird. Why is this? May I have a little  kiss? What? I'm very lonely here. Oh my gosh. No wonder he was being so nice. He had a crush on  him. I felt the pig had done me on all fronts.

[00:20:10]Oh, it's that guy. Toby Maguire. Come on, you.  Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. I've got to go. He's like in a panic state all the time. I rented  a suite at the Flamingo. You're supposed to be covering the National District Attorney's  Conference. Oh, now he's actually looking like he could be an attorney. I was going  back to Vegas. I had no choice. Luckily, my credit card was still technically valid.  Technically. Welcome to the Flamingo Hotel, sir. I'm just surprised how he  hasn't had a car accident yet.

[00:20:56]Okay, there's no way everyone's  looking at him. was badly tied.

[00:21:02]Oh god.

[00:21:06]He's like on a different level to  everybody else despite it being the 70s.

[00:21:13]He's literally got powder on his nose. Moonlight  Motel, which is just out on Paradise Boulevard.

[00:21:21]Paid for a goddamn room. Well, it's actually  a very fine place of lodging and it's only 16 blocks from here. It has a sauna theme. You listen  to me, you filthy little I want a manager out here now. Now. Now. Because I'm sick of listening to  your dog. Damn. People are so angry. I call you a cab. Sure. And I'll call you a sucker. I could  hear what the clerk was really saying. Listen, you fuzzy little I've beened around in my  time by meantempered rule crazy cops. Oh, it's honestly so you officer. He should say  that. I'm in charge. He should. But I wonder if I could just slide on through and get out  of your way. Name is Duke. Attorney certainly, sir. He just gets through. That would be even more  frustrating. What do you think? So chaotic. Oh, he's flirting with him. You don't hesitate  to call me. Sven likes him. Look what you did. Look what you did. Oh my god. How do  people talk to other people in this way?

[00:22:40]Whoa.

[00:22:44]This movie is so weird. Can't be helped. Like  Lucy in the sky for diamonds. He sure knows how to pick him. He's on our side. He loves  artists. What a sweet. Lucy paints portraits of Barbara Strit. Wow. Quite obsessed. Can I do  these from TV? What a artist. Why don't uh and pig laddin ought to be tray. Most people  know how to speak Pig Ladden, I fear. So, she probably knows what you're  talking about, bud. You mean kiss?

[00:23:27]How the hell did he get this little  girl up here with her damn paintings, too? And when did when did she have the  time to paint all of that? Must have been here for a while. God bless. She truly  looks like 17 or 18. What are your plans?

[00:23:47]The child in the bedroom. Yeah, she looks like  a child. I met her on the plane. It's weird.

[00:23:54]Before I realize, Jesus, she's never even  had a drink. Wow. With a hazy recollection of being seduced by some kind of cruel  Samoan who fed her liquor and LSD and then savagely penetrated every orifice in her  little body with his throbbing uncircumcised member. Oh my. Truth hurt. That's Yeah,  that's Yeah, help her, man. Well, well, you'll go straight to the gas chamber for this  one. It doesn't pay to try to help somebody.

[00:24:31]Wow.

[00:24:35]And then the police sirens in the background.  American Hotel. I need a reservation for my niece.

[00:24:42]Niece. I want her treated very gently. She's  an artist and uh she might seem a trifal doing her master's thesis on uh well Barbara Strean Barb  I'd rather not say my brother's in politics. Yeah, you understand. How do they have money to fund  so many hotel rooms? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay.

[00:25:03]Yeah. I guess they don't. I mean in today's age  you have to pay upfront or a deposit at least.

[00:25:11]But to cut her a drip and hope her memory  was here's an extra 10 bucks memory. Not that poor girl. Let's find the seafood  restaurant. Eat some of that salmon.

[00:25:23]I feel a powerful loss from that salmon.  Yum. E yuck. Dr. Elron Bumquest. Bumquest.

[00:25:39]Okay, that's kind of crazy.  Try and attempt to imagine what it is like inside. They don't  have to imagine these two blossom.

[00:25:52]Bumquist. Do you think the uh anthropologist  Margaret me strange behavior? I knew that guy was going to talk behind them. He looked like a very  familiar actor. Should have one hell of a trip.

[00:26:11]I feel like he's high and heaps of people  here are high and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly off when he  can't find a victim. Jeez. Oh, Lucy home.

[00:26:26]Lucy called weird. Well, it's the only way she can  contact them. She probably has things to say.

[00:26:35]I don't know what they done to me, but  I remember it was horrible. Oh my god.

[00:26:39]They gave you what? LSD. Gastration.  Gastration. Double gas. Oh my lord. Oh, where's my 357? I know her. She plays  um Wednesday Adams. This room is in my name. Talk to Okay. Godamn it. Got to  get out of here. Let me handle this.

[00:27:08]That stuff makes pure masculine seem  like ginger beer, man. Oh my god. Even stronger stuff. Chrome. Gray chrome.  Some people are just basically rotten.

[00:27:25]I'll let you know what it is. And  um so odd. I'm innocent. It was D.

[00:27:36]It's like they can't handle even  like a minute of being sober.

[00:27:44]It's quite intense.

[00:27:48]I'm like, what is the plot here? I feel  like I'm just watching these two. That's that in their own heads. That's the  last we should be hearing from Lucy, man. as they experience life constantly high.  You know what we need? We need some hope. No, no, you don't. I could already feel this  stuff working on me. The first wave felt like a combination of measculine method. They're just  experimenting with new things all the time. Might have picked up a letter opener and gone after my  I just don't know how he functions in his career.

[00:28:30]Yes. And then you notice about six huge cherry  tips. Jeez, this is so terrifying. I would not want this to be my state of mind constantly.  But they like it. They like to live in fear and loathing. That's it. I figured out the movie.  Don't try and fight it. You'll get brain bubbles, strokes, aneurysms. Oh, you'll just  wither up and die. That's pretty scary.

[00:29:06]You know, I would love to hear from  people who did a lot of drugs in the 70s.

[00:29:12]I'm really really curious how accurate  this movie's portrayal of 70s and drug taking is and the experimentation and the I  guess constant use of it. Is that was that a thing? I mean of course if you're  comfortable with sharing what kind of psychotic would play that song right now at  this moment. Wow. What a mess. What a mess.

[00:29:40]The general back alley ambience of the suite was  so rough. What happened? So incredibly foul. Well, the TVs don't work anymore. There was evidence  in this room of excessive consumption of almost every type of drug to 154. Yes. And now he's a  lizard. What kind of addict would need all these coconut husks and crushed honeydew rind and  these crude pornographic photos smeared with mustard that had dried to a hard yellow crust?  These were not the princess. Put your hands where you out. Grim memories and bad flashbacks.  Get a grip. Maintain. How many nights and weird mornings had this been going on? I'm glad he  got some sleep. Probably withdrawing right now.

[00:30:24]Ew. What the uh e Oh, ugly. I was sure of it. E.

[00:30:40]Now he's just trying to pick  up the pieces. What happened?

[00:30:45]He's got his He's got his memory to  rely on and it's not very reliable.

[00:30:54]But I noticed her sneaking ass while I took  it. What am I doing? Who cut you off? Nobody.

[00:30:57]I'm the maid. Oh my god. The poor maid. I know  you're the cops, but I thought you were just here for the convention. I swear the cops. I  don't know anything about no dope. Come on, baby. How scary for her. I hate dope. So do  we. I think we should pay. What's your name?

[00:31:18]Alice. Just drink blood in service and ask for  Alice. I'll say they have a lot of charisma to come up with all of the lies that they do. Ew.  Like he looks so nasty. How can she believe it?

[00:31:32]Hopefully she doesn't. Leave a pile of towels and  soap outside the door exactly at midnight. Ah, right. Thank God for decent people. Thank God for  decent people. Yeah. Yeah. Don't get me started.

[00:31:45]The owner always wanted to run away and join the  circuit. This place is truly bizarre. The American dream come true, man. Pure Horatio algae. Horatio  algae. There's that name again. Let's get down to brass tax here. How much for the eight? How much  you got? How much you think you take for the Oh, good thing he records everything. What the  is going on? Where's the man? Who the a man?

[00:32:12]What a line. Where are you? You looking that  we've been heading for trouble. That we've pushed our luck a bit too far. Yeah, I  can see that. I just want to buy some.

[00:32:26]So this is what happened  to him. E godamn it. Gosh, Vegas does not look like a fun place in this  movie. I mean, I can understand the way he is.

[00:32:48]I'll Oh my Oh my god. My goodness. The Northstar  coffee lounge seemed like a fairly safe haven from our storms. No talk. There he is. Two glasses  of ice water with ice. Says no smoking as well.

[00:33:06]She was definitely in charge here. Whoa. What  is this? It's a napkin. Don't give me that.

[00:33:15]I know what that means. You fat goddamn pimp.  That's the name of a horse I used to own. Ma'am backdoor beauty work was emphasized. Listen  to me. I got to take a lot of in this place, but I don't have to take it off. No pimp.  He's really into backdoor stuff. I noticed he's like, I can be scary, too.  I'm going to call the cops. Wow.

[00:33:44]Dealt with that.

[00:33:50]Feel bad for her. How much is that  lemon mering pie? 35. That's cheap.

[00:33:59]He's just doing what he wants  now. Yum. Lemon mering pie.

[00:34:07]Jeez.

[00:34:12]He can be pretty intimidating.

[00:34:17]Oh, his cigarettes like down for once.  The sight of the blade had triggered bad memories. She was still in the grip  of paralysis, but we left. Yeah. Wow.

[00:34:32]Poor girl. We'd abused every rule that Vegas lived  by. abusing the tourist. Terrifying the hell.

[00:34:39]Yeah, you only have 15 minutes to get my attorney  to the airport. He keeps calling me his attorney.

[00:34:45]They seem like friends. Very best friends. Oh  no, it's the little girl and her paintings.

[00:34:54]You're going the wrong way. They totally freaked  out. Drive carefully. Come back soon. Emperor's over there. God damn it. Over there. Far out.  I've never missed a plane yet. Whoa. Oh my god.

[00:35:19]Completely reckless. But this kind of  behavior is probably giving him what drugs give him. Adrenaline and fear. Hey.  Hey. Hey. Listen. Don't take any g from these swines. Finally. If you have any  remember you can always send a telegram to the right people wrote a poem about  that once probably good advice if you have for brains he made it he gets away  there he goes one of god's own prototypes too weird to live and too rare to die that is  a good way of explaining him that's for sure look at the state of his car oh  my god Gosh. So, mystery solved.

[00:36:10]This is such a disgusting room. What Liry  took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle that he helped create. Of  course, he's a journalist. He's writing it all.

[00:36:19]Or at least some force is tending the light  at the end of the tunnel. It's a cool shot.

[00:36:26]Drive carefully. Come back soon. US Interstate 15.  Just a flat out highspeed burn from B. Oh my gosh, he looks insane. He's still quite eloquent even  when high when it comes to his thoughts though, you know, given we had his narration. You are now  leaving fear and loathing. I'm not going to lie, while I was watching this movie, I struggled to  see the plot because it it was exactly as the IMDP blurb explained. It was most definitely a series  of psychedelic escapades because the story wasn't really going anywhere. They just kept going on  these crazy wild adventures. But I did know that there were some themes going on in the background.  For example, uh the movie starts off with Vietnam, people protesting, the war, the news. So we kind  of are given that setting of somewhere between 1960 1979 around that period perhaps and then we  are told it is 1971 so peak drug era I suppose of maybe not just America maybe it happened in  Australia too but I most certainly wasn't around during that period so I feel like there were  definitely preerequisites perhaps before watching this movie and that might have been like a general  knowledge of the context of everybody's feelings, emotions around America as a as a country  and how they felt towards their government, how they felt towards freedom and the excessive  drug use of course going on during that time. A lot of soldiers were coming back from the World  War II. A lot of people were traumatized. A lot of people were angry and so there is a lot of context  that I miss there being a millennial Australian who didn't grow up or have people around me  during that period to explain to me what it was like. I can only make deductions from popular  media. So perhaps I might have enjoyed it more had I understood the context behind it. And perhaps I  would have enjoyed this movie had I been stoned or taking LSD or something, but I have never taken  that in my life, LSD. And I didn't think to, to be honest, because it was labeled a stoner  comedy. And you know, I was thinking weed, that's it. But no, it was all sorts of things that  I hadn't even heard before. I didn't even know they existed before this movie. I was googling  the drugs that they were talking about on my phone and wondering how does this drug impact a  person if they take it. I often kept forgetting that they actually were a journalist and a lawyer  respectively. I just kept thinking that they were lying to everybody because they did lie to the  maid. They had convinced her that they were they were cops. They know how to get themselves  out of all sorts of tricky weird situations.

[00:39:41]They've got high charisma and they definitely  know how to navigate the world quite well when they are stoned from all sorts of different  kinds of drugs. Let's just put it that way. So, so they were wellversed. However, I feel like  it was a commentary of life back in 1971, particularly for Americans or the youth, but  also kind of stood as an anti-drug movie at the same time because their lives were literally so  chaotic and problematic and dangerous. They were living in fear and loathing. Um, constant fear  and loathing of their predicament. I'm glad Johnny Depp's character was able to finish writing  at the very least. Like he he was motivated to finish what he was writing. And I do feel like  maybe the drugs were helping him in his creativity perhaps. But yeah, they there were definitely  moments in the film where I thought, "Wow, this feels criminal. Everything that they're doing  feels so criminal." It was hard for me to relate, but yeah, like I said, I feel like those extra  layers of, you know, context, maybe like a second viewing would have helped. I don't think I'll be  taking LSD to watch this movie, but maybe that's what is required. It was beautifully shot. It was  very stylistic and it was edited beautifully. It was very pretty. The movie was pretty despite  the vomit, but it was shot beautifully. Um, it was edited beautifully. It was very stylized.  So perhaps that was the point, the the beauty of the storytelling of this man's mind because Juke  was narrating pretty much the entire time. I felt like there was very little time to like process  my own thoughts cuz he was always in my head as well. It was very immersive in that way. But I  want to hear your thoughts. What did you think of the movie? Uh, did you require a second watch? Did  you like it the first time watching? How old were you when you first watched this film? Um, did you  have all of the context? Did you watch it sober or high? I'd love to hear from you. If you want to  watch this movie along with me, you just need a copy of the movie and a membership to my Patreon.  As always, all of that information plus my social media and my two other channels are always going  to be linked in the description bar and the pin comments down below. If you enjoyed my reaction  and my review, please share the love, share it around, like, comment, subscribe, and hopefully  I will see you in the next video. Bye everyone.