Fear and Loathing.....in Las Vegas :)

Fear and loathing in las vegas is by far Johnny Depps best work. He's been a pirate, a chocolate factory man, a mad hatter and countless other shirtless and buff characters. This movie, somewhat like requiem for a dream, also illustrates drug induced states of mind. But rather than being a "drug bashing" flick, this simply shows an unbiased and realistic perception of drug use. Sure the movie is super weird and kind of obscure, but then again..... what else is your mind like on drugs? Oh yea, weird and obscure. My favorite line from this movie, which I try and use on a daily basis is "We can't stop here, this is bat country!" Johnny Depp says this after hallucinating behind the wheel, he thinks he sees giant bats circling the car and flying overhead.
Once our loaded drug users reach their vegas destination, they check in under a fake name and continue to drown themselves in drugs. As if vegas weren't a weird trip all on its own, add uppers, downers, some alcohol, and a paranoid personality. This movie depicts the vegas experince through the drunk and intoxicated eyes of a drugee. The best part of the film is when they are in the bar and both our characters decide to take a lot of acid. One minute they are sitting amongst normal people in a casino, but when they look up again, they've all been turned into giant reptiles/dinosaurs. So they get down low and try to escape without being noticed. This is when the director decides to throw in a dinosaur orgy before our characters exit the scene.
The rest of the movie pretty much follows our charcters in their drug induced adventures around Las Vegas. I personally like this movie because the director is able to capture "altered states of mind" in a realistic and artistic sense. Like in many independent films, the direcotr isn't worried about appealing to the masses, he's worried about bringing his twisted drug story to life. He's not worried about casting young hip actors to glorify the use of drugs, he wants weirdos. The socially awkward, paranoid, balding type. And I guess possibly, because it's so anti-norm and anti-mainstream, that's why the film captivated my attention.