Résumés(1)
Observed for over a decade (13 years), this documentary follows Katka, Lada and Jana through their world of drugs, prison, love and responsibility. They live on the streets in Prague, hustling for drugs, stealing, attempting murder. Lada and Jana end up in prison. Katka ends up expecting a child. Will she manage to overcome this most difficult battle of her life? This is not a film about drug abuse, but a film about the replenishing power of life, about values and their price, about mothers and their relationship with their children. (texte officiel du distributeur)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Unlike the original documentary Trapped, in which solidarity and hope were the predominant emotions, I am left with a certain resignation and disgust after watching the full length version. The pity for the fighting mind got lost somewhere, leaving only a devastating look at a decaying body (I thought about Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream many times). The decline and resignation of the main protagonist are also suppressed by the detachment by Helena Třeštíková, when, at the end of the documentary, she tries to retouch the "story written by life" at least a little through her own initiative. A small misstep against the hitherto excellent "time-lapse". However, this is only proof of the overwhelming nature of this "drug romance," probably one of the strongest and rawest forms of addiction and self-destruction. After the screening, I felt like I had rolled in rotting garbage for an hour and a half. Regret is most likely the last memento left from Katka's story... Paradoxically, perhaps that's what bothered me a little – that it's no longer the expectation of catharsis, but just one big crisis.
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This is a really good documentary. There are moments when you wish Kate could break free from this addiction, to manage to escape from it, but you know she can't. Helena Třeštíková plays it safe, she doesn't stop and captures the self-destruction of one person, who is destroyed by drugs but above all destroys herself. This is a film that gets under your skin and shows you people you probably don't want to be in the company of. Or become like them.
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