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Drugs are Like That PSA

Itinerant co-blogger/pal Skip E. has posted an amazing old anti-drug film in his AV Geeks archive. Produced by Community TV of South Florida in 1979, Drugs are Like That is so convoluted and poorly devised, you'd think it was made by NORML. Famous dead homophobe Anita Bryant narrates, and clearly she and the producers are high. How else could you explain the trippy camera work and dada-like metaphors -- drugs are like babies sucking a pacifier? ...crashing legos? ...swims in lakes?!

In the filmmakers' work, dangers lurk around every corner. The most innocent everyday experiences are portrayed as events to loathe and to fear.... which makes sense, in a backwards sort of way. Anyone with such a paranoid view of the living one's life should be taking drugs.