Less Than Zero Book Review. George carlin was once asked how cocaine made you feel, and he answered: It draws us in only and precisely to the extent that we share its inability to care about anyone within its pages.
If we're to believe the ads, the mere fact that the film is even loosely based on the book should indicate the film's impending controversy. The tone of less than zero was a zombified monologue, in which the narrator, a young, rich brat called clay, described encounters with sex, drugs. It makes you feel like having some more cocaine. that inescapable fact is at the bottom of less than zero, a movie that knows cocaine inside out and paints a portrait of drug addiction that is all the more harrowing because it takes place in the beverly.
If we're to believe the ads, the mere fact that the film is even loosely based on the book should indicate the film's impending controversy.
The movie is based on the 1985 novel less than zero by bret easton ellis. It draws us in only and precisely to the extent that we share its inability to care about anyone within its pages. It starred andrew mccarthy as clay, robert downey jr. The tone of less than zero was a zombified monologue, in which the narrator, a young, rich brat called clay, described encounters with sex, drugs.