
Playing God
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- Year:
- 1997
- 94 min
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Sometimes we all wonder
how things come to be.
The chain of events.
A leads to "b"
leads to "c" leads to "z."
Each life is made up
of big decisions,
and each day is made up
of a million little decisions.
What shirt to wear.
What street to walk on.
What to eat for lunch.
And all these seemingly
inconsequential choices...
Might change your life forever.
But who can handle
that kind of responsibility?
So you have
to trust your instinct.
What the greeks
might call "your character."
And you better pray to
whatever God you believe in...
That your character knows
what the hell it's doing.
I thought I was
a man of character...
Good character...
Until I made a mistake.
A bad one
that changed everything.
That's why I found myself
walking into a lousy L.A. bar
to buy some fentanyl citrate.
Synthetic heroin.
My personal favorite.
You see, when I got high, the
chain of events disappeared.
No past, no future.
Just the sweet, sticky now.
that night with my goodies,
something happened.
I did a good thing.
One good deed
I wasn't ready for.
And a ride I had
no business taking.
We're set. Okay.
See you later, man.
Hello, my friend.
What's your pleasure?
The usual.
Call 911!
Nobody callin' 911!
He's gonna die! Call Raymond.
He's dyin'.
What you doin', man?
- You gonna call 911?
- No, man.
Then back off.
His lung is punctured.
Get me some rum.
I need a clean knife
and clean towels.
I need, like, a plastic
water bottle.
Oh, and a wire hanger.
Get a wire hanger
and straighten it out.
I need some plastic tube.
A beer pump or a soda pump?
run the wire hanger through it.
Get me some tape.
Like, three or four
pieces of tape.
Now, get him up on the table.
Go round it up now.
Help me lift him up.
Turn the music down.
Turn it off!
Up.
Get those towels.
Just hold it hard.
Give me that.
Tight. Put it hard.
Put it hard.
Give me the knife.
Lighter. Lighter. Lighter.
Sterilize that.
You got it?
If anybody's squeamish,
look away. Now, hold him tight.
He's gonna jump.
Hold him!
Run some of the wire through
the front of the tubing, like,
three inches, and give it to
me.
Perfect.
Okay, now pull,
pull the wire out.
Pull it out. Pull it out.
Okay, give me some tape.
Thank you.
Get the other end of the tubing
and put it in the bottle.
Get some tape and make it
airtight around the opening.
You with me? You got it?
- Yeah.
- All right.
Squeeze the bottle first.
Make it as airtight as you can.
Okay, hold it low.
Now, release the bottle.
Release it.
He'll live, but you better
get him to a hospital now.
Obviously, I'd seen a lot of
awful things done to the body.
I mean, I'd seen the results,
shots fired before.
Not at a man.
Not two feet from me.
It didn't scare me as much
as I thought it might, though.
Maybe because I knew
undo what had been done.
that man's life, but I didn't.
It just made me miss more
what I once was.
Like a prisoner getting
one day out in the sun,
it just made the prison seem
that much more dismal.
On the way home, I said,
tonight, I will not get high.
I might just as well have said,
tonight, I will not breathe.
There's no one else now.
It's you or no one.
I've been up 28 hours.
There's no one else now.
It's you or no one.
Sometimes I feel like
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