This documentary wasted my time. It could have been 15 minutes. It gave far to many similar accounts of those who have been prescribed adder-all and other prescription drugs. It went on and on and on about all the perks of being on these drugs. I started to wonder why I wasn't taking them. Joking. The stupid documentary spent barely any time talking about the down sides of these drugs. It was like the film maker was too afraid to offend anyone who was taking these drugs. Weird weird weird. A documentary with zero balls. Waste of time
Take Your Pills
2018
Action / Documentary
Take Your Pills
2018
Action / Documentary
Plot summary
The pressure to achieve more, do more, and be more is part of being human - and in the age of Adderall and Ritalin, achieving that can be as close as the local pharmacy. No longer just "a cure for excitable kids," prescription stimulants are in college classrooms, on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley...any place "the need to succeed" slams into "not enough hours in the day." But there are costs. In the insightful Netflix documentary TAKE YOUR PILLS, award-winning documentarian Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) focuses on the history, the facts, and the pervasiveness of cognitive-enhancement drugs in our amped-up era of late-stage-capitalism. Executive produced by Maria Shriver and Christina Schwarzenegger, TAKE YOUR PILLS examines what some view as a brave new world of limitless possibilities, and others see as a sped-up ride down a synaptic slippery slope, as these pills have become the defining drug of a generation.
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Director
Top cast
Andy Warhol as Himself
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 738.73 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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Paid for by the makers of Adderall?
This documentary supposedly explores the different sides of taking stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin, except it spends most of its 90 minutes with interviews about how Adderall gives you an edge and an advantage. The negative effects are barely explored, so in the end, it felt practically like an Adderall informercial. It was professionally made though and has some interesting info.
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Legal addiction
I always was against treating yourself with pills if there was a different approach. In this case some felt there was not. And while there are cases where pills did the trick, there are others where they were not needed. But once you get on that train, it's tough to get off it/them.
The documentary does compare this with the opiod crisis (maybe not the best comparison, but they felt it was necessary to make people listen). We get a lot of people affected and who really think or thought the pills helped them. Some even question if they are different now and if their achievements are their own or just something they cheated their way into. Being an enhanced version of themselves (even though it is not labelled that way officially) ... interesting while flawed documentary