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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas works for its defenders because Gilliam refuses to clean the material up into respectable counterculture nostalgia. The film is abrasive, funny, nauseating, and frequently exhausting, which is exactly how it turns collapse, paranoia, and post-60s disillusionment into a lived cinematic texture instead of a tidy thesis.
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A psychedelic journey through Las Vegas as two men indulge in a week of debauchery fueled by psychoactive substances.
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