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A
"reefer" is a spliff, or a joint. A
"marihuana cigarette". And this movie is
all about the dread marihuana, as they call
it in the movie. And there's just too much madness
in the movie.
Smoking weed
is presented as the reason for a 16 year old boy
to kill his entire family, for example. During the
entire movie you're being presented to an extreme
version of all the prejudice there is against
marihuana.
Reefer
Madness is a movie with players and a script. It's
not a documentary. And that makes it an invaluable
piece of comedy, even though it is never intended
as such. But aren't these things the most funny,
in some way?
The story is
located in a little town. You're being introduced
to a group of friends. They're being tempted
into marijuana use.
As soon as
they smoke a little bit, they completely change.
One -ofcourse under the influence of marijuana-
causes a car accident. You'll even witness a
sexual assault caused by a few draws from the reefer.
And murder.
A young man
smokes a joint, and then loses all self-control
which makes him rape the girl. the girl resists
and the boy shoots her dead. Or didn't he? In
court, he's found guilty and death sentence is put
on him.
In another
scene, the police enters the house of someone who
is under the influence of marijuana and as
a result kills the policeman. All the while, his
girlfriend laughs her brains out...
This
unintentional comedy shows the reefer madness.
The people who believe that this great comedy
really isn't a comedy at all. They would perfectly
agree with this scene, where a judge sentences
someone to a "house of the criminally
insane" for the rest of his life on the
basis of marijuana use.
And that's
the true reefer madness.
However,
there are some really great scenes, some great
acting, and the story-line has some nice angles.
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