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Dope Thief Recap: So Much Top 40
Dope Thief goes into a full-on fever dream.
With a deceptively tight structure and a thoughtfully executed injection of surreality into the show’s otherwise economical visual sensibilities, Peter Craig, director Jonathan van Tulleken, editor Jennifer Barbot, and crew make a powerful, digestible vision quest out of Ray’s delirium. With Ray’s interior trauma trip as the emotional crux for both of them, Marchetti’s POV gives us a triangulated glimpse at not only Mina’s suffering, but her laser focus on the truth (and justice) of the matter. While Nader is chasing the quickest, cleanest investigation wrap-up at the expense of any real sense of justice, Marchetti has a heart-to-heart with Mina where she confesses her daughter died from a Fentanyl overdose, caused by a boyfriend thinking he was getting Percocet.
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