The independent film, The Oregonian, is one which is highly underrated and teaches the audience a valuable lesson in addiction. As we see in the opening scene, the presence of alcohol in the protagonist's life is prevalent and has caused her boyfriend to lie unconscious on the floor. The woman, however, is unmoved and in response begins to finish the rest of the bottle before she gets behind the wheel of the car. In her inebriation, she happens to run down a boy and his father. While she seems distraught at first, she begins to flee the scene like the crack head she is.
Soon after her hit and run she is met by a woman in the middle of the road, obviously strung out on some sort of drug. No words are exchanged, only looks of
w.t.f. Perhaps this is the director foreshadowing what would eventually become of the woman should abuse continue. Later on, our main character is met by a man in a truck who eventually stops to take a pee. Granted this man has not spoken any words prior to his stop and we see that his urine goes from a clear color, to yellow, to red, to black before he passes out on the ground. Of course we can take this change in urine color to be a side effect of constant drug abuse and perhaps Stds attained through acquiring said drugs. Nevertheless, the man returns to his truck and takes our main character to his house. We can only assume that our main character performed sexual acts in order to obtain more drugs from this man.
At this point in the film, we can see that the director is attempting to communicate to us that this woman is clearly tripping balls. While we may not see her take any drugs, the hallucinations she incurs is a sign that she has a drug abuse problem and is probably high as a kite throughout the entire film. This is illustrated clearly when we see the fictional character of Gumby make an appearance in the film; obviously a representation of her childhood innocence which she ultimately destroys.
In the end, we see that she has found refuge with a group of people who enjoy drinking a mixture of gasoline and milk. Referring back to her dependence of alcohol, this concoction is most likely actually a mixture of alcohol and codeine as she attempts to break the bonds of her reality even further. As the movie ends, we see our main character drive away with her future, cracked-out self as her face slowly distorts, reflecting upon the inevitable years of future drug abuse.
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