With a poor and conscious vulgar style, this movie has become a kind of cult b-movie for Italian cinema, especially for roman public. "Amore tossico" re-adapts neorealistic techniques (unprofessional actors, fedelity to reality, poor ambientation etc.) to eighties and roman world, to talk about heroin toxicodependence during that period. Viewed in original language, it sounds also comical for roman expressions and vitality; but I'm reality it's a kind of tragedy: it counts of ordinary life of toxic people and its emptiness and precarious situation in a constant and pathological desire of drugs, risking death and living life as something superficial that can be refused in any moment. With actors that are really toxicodependent people, Caligari's build a pasolinian world (and Pasolin's grave compares in the movie that's ambientated in Ostia, where Pasolini died) and explore what was (and still is) a tremendous problem, which one of drugs.
Review of Toxic Love
