The Informers
“Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.”
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A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
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A bleak, decadent dive into the hollow lives of LA's elite. It's a stylish, unsettling portrayal of excess and alienation, where casual sex and drugs offer fleeting escape from profound emptiness. The interconnected stories feel like a slow descent into despair.
nihilisticbleakhedonisticunsettlingsteady80s aestheticensemble dramagritty realismcharacter studyemptinessdecadencedisconnectionmoral decay
child murderslice of lifehollywooddrugshedonism1980sdysfunctionalintersecting lives
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