"The Basketball Diaries"

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"In the film The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995), the subject is not sports but drug abuse and the way a young man descends into the hell of drug use on the streets. The main character is a member of a winning high school basketball team, but more and more his life comes to center not on the basketball court but on the streets where he can make money to buy drugs.

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"In the film The Basketball Diaries (Scott Kalvert, 1995), the subject is not sports but drug abuse and the way a young man descends into the hell of drug use on the streets. The main character is a member of a winning high school basketball team, but more and more his life comes to center not on the basketball court but on the streets where he can make money to buy drugs. He dreams at first of being a basketball star, but soon he no longer dreams and only seeks to escape through drugs. The film makes use of a number of themes related to rugs and drug abuse in developing its image of the downfall of this one young man, though the film is not fully successful and only presents its story without really developing an explanation or tying the themes to the world at large.

The primary message of the film is that drugs are bad and ..."

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