When a publicist sent me a press release and screener for Nicholas
Jarecki’s “Crisis”, I looked forward to covering a film by a director
who I acclaimed as making one of the best films of 2012: “9. Arbitrage –
Don’t tell Oliver Stone that I said so, but this is much better than his
“Wall Street” sequel
<https://louisproyect.org/2013/01/12/best-films-of-2012/>.”
One of his personal quotes on IMDB will give you a sense of what
motivated him to take aim at a fictionalized version of the Sackler
family of Purdue Pharma infamy in “Crisis” as well as a billionaire
arbitrageur who kept his role in the death of his mistress a secret /a
la/ Ted Kennedy/Chappaquiddick in the earlier work. “I think that people
need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating
systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.”
“Crisis” is the first narrative film to tell the story of how both
criminal gangs and prestigious philanthropist families worked to extract
blood money from American families in recent years through the sale of
opioids like Oxycodone. Set in Detroit and Montreal, it begins with the
arrest of a man in a white camouflage suit dragging a sled full of
pain-killers across the Canadian border.
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2021/05/21/film-reflections-on-the-opioid-crisis/
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