The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human - and in the age of Adderall and Ritalin, achieving that can be as close as the local pharmacy. No longer just "a cure for excitable kids," prescription stimulants are in college classrooms, on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley...any place "the need to succeed" slams into "not enough hours in the day." But there are costs. In the insightful Netflix documentary TAKE YOUR PILLS, award-winning documentarian A... (Full plot summary below)
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The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human - and in the age of Adderall and Ritalin, achieving that can be as close as the local pharmacy. No longer just "a cure for excitable kids," prescription stimulants are in college classrooms, on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley...any place "the need to succeed" slams into "not enough hours in the day." But there are costs. In the insightful Netflix documentary TAKE YOUR PILLS, award-winning documentarian Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) focuses on the history, the facts, and the pervasiveness of cognitive-enhancement drugs in our amped-up era of late-stage-capitalism. Executive produced by Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger, TAKE YOUR PILLS examines what some view as a brave new world of limitless possibilities, and others see as a sped-up ride down a synaptic slippery slope, as these pills have become the defining drug of a generation.
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| Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweAlthough the prescription drug users that Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) profiles have some interesting things to say about how these products affect their performance and perceptions, the steady stream of talking-head experts doesn’t do much to raise the movie’s pulse. |
| ThrillistChristopher CampbellSide effects include rage and misinformation. |
| DeciderKayla CobbTake Your Pills doesn't have an answer for why our society is so focused on success, or how we should handle the stresses that come along with achieving it. However, the film makes a point that's perhaps even more powerful. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanThe kinds of connections that Take Your Pills makes, between the culture of information overload and a radically tightened job market and heightened personal performance and the chemical itch that fuels this whole late-stage capitalist dynamic, may strike some as too speculative for comfort. Yet it’s precisely by making connections like these that a documentary can fire up your perceptions enough to burn through the cumulative effects of advertising. |
| Birth.Movies.Death.Marisa MirabalThe tone is straightforward, balanced, and intellectually stimulating. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreIt’s pretty late in the game to be getting a primer on this years-long epidemic, but the least you can say about this super-slick, ADHD friendly film is that you can’t watch it and say you don’t have an idea how it could benefit you or your kid, and just a taste of exactly why it’s a bad idea. |
| The PlaylistGary GarrisonThey are tough and necessary questions that make Take Your Pills, for all its dizzying energy, a grounded and rigorous film. Though at times, it feels too squeamish to lean all the way into an idea or too hard on a particular truth, which makes it feel too deliberate and maybe not quite the earnest dissection it could be. |
| IndiewireDavid EhrlichA reductive documentary that’s far too focused on the big picture to really unpack the human element. |
| User ReviewJonathan BI notice that a lot of reviewers are very angry at this movie. I see a lot of defensiveness in the comments/reviews. It just proves the point everyone is on the "legal speed". hahahaha |
| User ReviewMatthew KAn insightful, balanced, measured, and well-crafted documentary about the array of experiences that together comprise the amphetamine epidemic. |
