This is a scene from The Northern Lights: Shining the Light on the Meth-edemic, a Minnesota-filmed documentary about a small town making a stand against methamphetamine. The stories are based upon real interviews. Visit themethedemic.com for more info, including a movie making contest.
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Posted by Minnesota Stories on July 20, 2007 12:59 AM
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I agree that meth is a huge problem and should be brought out into the light of day. However, this bad reenactment is not going to help as it has way too high of a cheese factor and kids are way too smart for this kind of treatment. It looks like an old high school production. You would be much more effective if you went out on the street and talked to and real life users and dealt with the effect it is having on them and those close to them.
Posted by: Jim Nihart at July 20, 2007 08:41 AM
I would like to amend my previous comment in that after reading further about the project these women are promoting, I think that while what they are doing is providing a good forum for discussion in a controlled atmosphere. I think that by holding the entrants in the competition to a set script to cover their educational needs rather than possibly a set of guidelines and bullet points that should be covered, it all ends up sounding so artificial that kids will simply tune out (Think Drivers Ed Movies).
Posted by: Jim Nihart at July 22, 2007 11:38 AM
I agree. The rules that this organizations have set up are stifling, restrictive and unatural. Obviously, the are heavily into controlling every single word and they should back off. They rule list and script approval sounds worse than the most brutally oppressive Hollywood executive.