Yay, I'm glad that the despair and hopelessness comes across, because I wanted to show Roy as he hit rock bottom.
And I know what you mean with the atmosphere of depicting drug use. I think it is because drugs also have an air of glamor, glorified decadence, and creative mind altering effects alongside with the squalor, sickness and crime elements, also the rejection of bourgeois mainstream values is implied, which can be positive or negative depending on your perspective. It's the same, whether you have some 19th century artist going on about absinthe, or some 1960s hippie about pot or LSD.
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And I know what you mean with the atmosphere of depicting drug use. I think it is because drugs also have an air of glamor, glorified decadence, and creative mind altering effects alongside with the squalor, sickness and crime elements, also the rejection of bourgeois mainstream values is implied, which can be positive or negative depending on your perspective. It's the same, whether you have some 19th century artist going on about absinthe, or some 1960s hippie about pot or LSD.