Then someone smuggles 70lbs of weed on the plane, internationally? That's heavy trafficking and all the entourage are so stoned that one guy says, "Oh, he's rich, we'd all get out quick." That's serious smuggling weight, so WTF? Plus, I just read where he was already under suspicion for a previous flight. Sounds like his g/f, Ally, tried to give him limits, but she often looked just as messed up, and the crew supplied him behind her back (but she's still giving him an "allowance"). And no one says a word, even the camera guy takes the offered pain pills, even as Higgins is on the heavy nod while snorting more (he was on that road long before the fatal flight). Oh, but the money! Don't stop the great money train and your access to fame! Higgins is obviously, more obviously than most, messed up on drugs from the start of this journey. I have seen this from inside the biz more than once and it's got to stop label execs have got to take accountability, managers have to, promoters, assistants, friends, family have to. Due to the money and fame, no one stops the fatal plunge. Just like the documentary, Amy, about Amy Winehouse, but not near as good, just sad to watch her 'people' suck as much money out of her as they can on the way to her death. With, seemingly a vlog rolling at all times, surely more answers were in there or someone could have asked or not treated these situations as normal. But I wanted to know what made him tick, why was he such an addict? Why was he on the road to it, you know, other than he was, like so many, given speed as a kid, for ADHD. You do get an idea of his fame from it, and the song sales listed after every song. It's a lot of cinema verite (just camera) shot on stage and in between. This is not a true documentary on Jarad Higgins' life. Does this film make him look like a worse person? Probably, but I appreciate the authenticity, and this is probably the reason the long-teased XXXTENTACION documentary will never see the light of day. If we're seeing the behind the scenes, we need the full, authentic story, and that's basically what we got. Knowing his eventual fate, it's very painful and nasty to watch him down 5 pills at a time, or try and fail to snort lines of percocet while already nodding off from opiates, but this was the man's life. I also appreciated that this film didn't skip over clips of Juice abusing drugs. "We should buy a private jet," Juice abruptly says in the middle of a recording session, clearly stoned out of his mind and barely conscious. In this light, this "documentary" serves as a grave warning against the temptations of materialism and fast living. Despite everything externally changing, nothing was really changed on the inside. Hundreds of millions of streams, and likes, and followers, "luxury" living, but still the person in the spotlight is the exact same person they were before all of that - a troubled young man with a dangerous drug addiction, and a huge passion for music. It made me realize how these people's lives truly are on the other side of the screen. However, even though there isn't much to this, I enjoyed seeing the "day in the life" footage. It has some interjection here and there from people close to him in the present day, and these interviews don't really sugar coat his situation, which I found to be very helpful in understanding the late rapper's life. Really, it is just candid behind-the-scenes vlog footage of late rapper Juice Wrld in the months leading up to his tragic death in December 2019. This is a very interesting "documentary", if you could call it that. Far from curing his anxiety disorder, Juice WRLD turned in to a living zombie with in the space of a few years, climaxing with his untimely end. As human beings we enjoy taking drugs, but we need to learn to know our limits, and when using them becomes counter productive. I don't feel the issues are necessarily music industry related per se, but a much more wider societal problem. He mentioned his own death frequently in life and in his music: It doesn't take a psychic to work that one out. Its far from an uncommon story in film or music industry of course. Its just a tragic combination of too much money, fame & pressure leading to a drug problem and s premature death. It might be disappointing for some, looking for deep inner meanings to events. That is the whole purpose of documentaries after all, to unveil the truth warts and all. In the way this is the best form of documentary film making, as you get a non judge mental uncensored look at the inner workings of the artist. It is basically excerpts of personal videos taken by friends. Even the guy holding the camera was popping xanax & percocet like they were going out of fashion.
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