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‘Shuffle’ Review: Recovering Addicts Become Prey in Benjamin Flaherty’s Moving Exposé on Rehabilitation Facilities Designed to Fail
The documentary 'Shuffle' dives deep into an oft-ignored addiction crisis, while turning the lens on its director Benjamin Flaherty.
Flaherty is the film’s key narratory, but his primary subjects are twenty-somethings Cory, Nicole and Daniel, who he travels alongside over several years as they’re ping-ponged between different addiction facilities. Its archival montages, of lab rats and casino gambling, create disturbing parameters around the movie’s central trio, conveying how the world at large sees their struggles without using dialogue. The result of Flaherty simply hearing out people like Cory, Nicole and Daniel is shattering confessions and crescendos, which imbues the film with the kind of urgency that no fact or figure could hope to.
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