Things We Lost In The Fire

If you haven't seen this movie, go purchase the movie from your local bootlegger, target, wherever. This is not an action, thriller, comedy, it's some real life shit. Not to mention a stellar cast (Halle Berry, David Duchovny, Benicio Del Toro) but this movie is so heartfelt. The backdrop of the movie, a woman and her two children lose their husband/father to a very tragic untimely mishap and as a way of coping with the loss the woman invites her husband's estranged heroin addict friend to help ease the grief. Now the society I grew up in automatically places drug addicts in such a negative light that it was hard for me to watch this movie and trust Benicio Del Toro's character at the same time. This woman invited a man whom she had a heavy discomfort with into her home just to keep her mind off of what was actually happening, she lost her husband, there's no running from that. Now as superb of a job that Halle did with her character, Audrey, it was Jerry (Del Toro) who was extremely captivating. He went from a hardcore heroin addict, living in the slums of the inner city, to a father figure to his best friend's children, and confidant to his best friends wife. It was almost as if he filled the void experienced by this family. He was unselfish and didn't even have to think twice about being there for a woman who adamantly disliked him. When you can put something like that to the side and move on as if nothing ever happened, that is to be admired. I can't even begin to explain how appealing this film is..you just have to watch it yourself.