Published March 29, 2010
"Meth" is a 24 minute "Requiem For a Dream"-ish short by 13-year tv production veteran Michael Maney about a Meth addict with a heart of whatever's the opposite of gold. The main character Nikki, a skanky drug fiend, wastes her money on meth till she's broke, but curiously never wastes down to the frail runway skin-and-bones I thought was the hidden benefit of drug abuse. Her child-having sister lets her have it in a few brief "You're a drug addict" phone scenes, while a pawn shop-owning friend refuses to buy a styrofoam head-topped $20 mannequin. Nikki, said meth addict, eventually does logic battle with that mannequin. Enjoying the ability to reappear inside her gigantic upstairs loft after being burned, let alone talk and blink Amanda Seyfried-sized eyes, the mannequin makes demands of Nikki that lead to a surprise ending. The "you know something's coming but you don't know what" lasts from the explanation of meth (which is the loveliest editing of the film) through a dealer shooting apples off his girlfriend's head all the way to the end.
“Meth” is unrated.
METH
Total Running Time: 24 MIN
Premieres April 10 & 12, 2010 in the "Shorts Program #4: Extinguish" in the Florida Film Festival.