Swansea Love Story Analysis

Academic Reflection Essay

Swansea Love Story Heroin is portrayed the film “Swansea Love Story” by Andy Capper and Leo Leigh. The producers focus on what lead the people to use, the effects of their use, the rehabilitation process and the using itself. The drug also has a medical origin and is dealt with in harsh manner by law enforcement. Through out the text I will evaluate and analyze these aspects in detail.

The film displays many aspects heroin addicts’ lives in the small city of Swansea whales. This city has a high population of heroin abusers, which is growing by the day, and many of them are teenagers of young age. The producer shows us different people from different parts of human society, like a romantic couple for instance who had lost their child because of a disturbed family member. The author focuses a lot on the source or motivation that got them hooked on the drug in the first place. For instance he speaks to a family who are battling heroin addiction where and the son is using and he puts all the blame on his father who was using in front of him as a child, although he thinks that society itself was a major factor that contributed as well. The producer even films the addicts’ injecting the drug in side alleys, showing us the effects these drugs have on humans.

Heroin being a drug that has a high addiction rate and horrible side effects makes it a hard drug to display in an objective manner. But despite that the producers display the ability to recover from heroin addiction. For instance the filmmakers show a man who is recovering from drug addiction through switching to another drug “Methadone” as a first step towards recovery. That man is now clean even though he still lives with a group of heroin addicts. Which makes the author neutral towards the drug and people of