Axxon
05-09-2007, 10:49 PM
Arizona is now running a new series of anti meth commercials aimed at children. Actually, most of these are pretty good so I'm not knocking them in general but there is this one commercial...
It shows a girl and her friends getting ready to get high and she says 'I'm only going to try meth once'.
It goes on with this theme 'I'm only going to...
steal once, sleep with this guy for meth once ( and in this one she has the face of a zombie that's ran through a barbed wire fence look that all the anti meth people say that you get but actually, I live in a high meth area and I've never seen anyone who looks like that. I do kinda look funny at people with sores now though which isn't really cool ), I'm only going to etc.
In each one of these scenes her younger sister is in the background watching.
The last scene has the older sister passed out and the younger one rifling her pockets and pulling out some meth and turning to the camera 'I'm only going to try meth once.'
Now, this has to be the stupidest kid in existence. I really couldn't give a crap if she shot heroin. See, as the author of Drugstore Cowboy said, "all these people doing drugs aren't doing it because it's miserable. Bottom line is, it's fun." It has to at least appear fun.
Ok, what I'm saying is that the kid didn't see her sister have any fun. She saw all the crappy stuff and none of the good stuff and she still wants to try it? Screw her. Let Darwin do his work already.
Now, the other commercials show the child saying they aren't going to become 'that guy' and then they realize that 'that guy' is the zombie cut up faced version of them in the future. Zombie face aside, these are good commercials which invite reflection rather than be preachy and they're fun to watch.
This one though, sorry. That kid really pisses me off. :)
It shows a girl and her friends getting ready to get high and she says 'I'm only going to try meth once'.
It goes on with this theme 'I'm only going to...
steal once, sleep with this guy for meth once ( and in this one she has the face of a zombie that's ran through a barbed wire fence look that all the anti meth people say that you get but actually, I live in a high meth area and I've never seen anyone who looks like that. I do kinda look funny at people with sores now though which isn't really cool ), I'm only going to etc.
In each one of these scenes her younger sister is in the background watching.
The last scene has the older sister passed out and the younger one rifling her pockets and pulling out some meth and turning to the camera 'I'm only going to try meth once.'
Now, this has to be the stupidest kid in existence. I really couldn't give a crap if she shot heroin. See, as the author of Drugstore Cowboy said, "all these people doing drugs aren't doing it because it's miserable. Bottom line is, it's fun." It has to at least appear fun.
Ok, what I'm saying is that the kid didn't see her sister have any fun. She saw all the crappy stuff and none of the good stuff and she still wants to try it? Screw her. Let Darwin do his work already.
Now, the other commercials show the child saying they aren't going to become 'that guy' and then they realize that 'that guy' is the zombie cut up faced version of them in the future. Zombie face aside, these are good commercials which invite reflection rather than be preachy and they're fun to watch.
This one though, sorry. That kid really pisses me off. :)