导演认识了两位“朋友”。他与他们之间的交往构成了这部片子。开始,他并没有一个明确的计划要制作一部纪录片,但随着时间的推移,他开始有目的和他们交“朋友”。“朋友”们奇迹般地允许导演进入他们的生活,他们吸毒也贩毒的生活。
纪录片的制作者和被拍者之间到底应该是一种什么样的关系,这部影片给出了它的解释。
The director himself (who’s also a journalist) encountered in an interview a small group of people who, despite all odds, willingly invite him into their world of drug use and peddling. That’s how “Using” was born.
What exactly is the relationship between a filmmaker and those being portrayed, “Using” has the answer.
Inspired by Stephanie Wood’s powerful memoir Fake, this drama follows Birdie Bell (Asher Keddie), a magazine features writer who thinks she’ 、s found her perfect match when she meets successful grazier, Joe Burt (David Wenham), on a dating app. But as the relationship intensifies, Birdie is torn between Joe’s magnetic pull and the instinct that her boyfriend isn’t all he has led her to believe.