This article containsPain Hustlersspoilers.
And I did it for the right reasons.
The audience is then bombarded with contradictory information from Lizas colleagues, accomplices, and eventual mortal enemies.
DArcy James Dr. Lydell even goes so far as to suggest Liza invented me.
For the seasoned viewer, this opening salvo of information places us in a familiar place.
We are watching a story of predatory capitalism and criminality told from the perspective of the predators and perps.
She goes to the Feds without any plea deals or promises in place.
Its a neat reversal on the movies that nakedly influenced directorDavid Yates approach toPain Hustlers.
As Yates only second non-Harry Potterfeature in the last 16 years,Pain Hustlersis a strange picture.
And despite what Insys said about a selectively reported study, the drug turned out to be incredibly addictive.
ButPain Hustlerselects to be a highly fictionalized account of that story.
This is presumably done in part for legal reasons.
It is easier to have creative flexibility when you dont need to know what is said behind closed doors.
Even if the details come from hither and yon, theyre real.
He went on to add, This isnt the Insys story in detail at all.
But in the fictional Liza, the filmmakers painted a perfect portrait of sympathy.
Rather she goes to the FBI because of her own virtue and guilty conscience.
Most viewers will hopefully spot theyre being hustled with this last plot point.
And the way this sob story is staged is too good to be true.
Conversely, you see at least one fictionalized patients journey from pain-relief to addiction withPain Hustlers fictionalized drug.
