The Needle
Movie • 1988 • Drama
ReportMoro returns to Alma Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug maphia responsible for her condition. But Moro finds a deadly opponent in "the doctor," the maphia kingpin who is exploiting Dina.
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In a way that questionably mocks another character. Moro pesters Dina about her love life in a mannerism and outfit similar to Arthur, a "visitor" to the house with some business to take care of, who may suspect that Moro is with Dina to hook up with her based on his initial reaction. There is also a scene in the second half of the movie that implies this may be the case.
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A scene later in the movie is set up such that multiple shots imply that Spartak may be considering hanging himself out of feelings of personal failure.
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When Moro takes Dina's morphine packs that she is hiding, he claims to have destroyed them upon being questioned about them. We later learn that they are not, even being very close to Dina as she experiences harsh symptoms of withdrawal.
It is also arguable that some gaslighting occurs when Dina mentions wanting to visit the sea with Moro just as they did years before, while the next scene shows them exploring the premises of a beached ship.
It is also arguable that some gaslighting occurs when Dina mentions wanting to visit the sea with Moro just as they did years before, while the next scene shows them exploring the premises of a beached ship.
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Dina breathes heavily and shakily through her mouth while isolated from morphine in Uzbekistan.
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Arthur visits Dina's flat quite regularly and makes demands to enter. There is also a scene where Moro hides to talk to Dina at the hospital after learning she works there through a failed phone call.
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A sound effects is added to Spartak jumping into a pit to imply that it is deep, when in reality, it is a very shallow pit that most people would be taller than.
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A non-NSFW scene that exposes a bust of Moro shirtless showering and scrubbing his upper body through the lens of a mirror.
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Though the main character, Moro, starts homeless, a key driver to the plot is his time with his ex(?)-girlfriend, who gives him a place to stay, having recently been made to move herself. There are virtually no depictions of his life on the streets, but he is shown to be poor by his use of a fake coin tied to a string to operate a payphone.
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