A warmth and understanding underpins their dynamic.
Animalsis outrightdifficult to watchat certain points.
Every time you think Jude and Bobbie have hit rock bottom, they somehow manage to dig even deeper.
But the key to what makes the film work is the hope woven into the fabric of the film.
It’s only a matter of whether they make the hard choices required to get there.
Jude and Bobbie are, at their core, loving and caring people.
But the utter desperation of their situation drives them further and further from that core as the film progresses.
Howls of pain over medical complications from their addiction are paralleled with lion roars.
And heroin withdrawals leave Jude and Bobbie snapping at one another like wounded animals.
But as harrowing asAnimalsis at times,that hope Dastmalchian believed paramount to the film’s core lingers throughout.
Maybe Jude and Bobbie hit rock bottom again and again.
Maybe their love isn’t enough.
Maybe they can only start to get better when they’re apart.
They aren’t destined by fate for this life.Animalsis far from some saccharine, romantic portrayal of addiction.
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