On top of supporting the negative stereotype of the damaged addict this film glosses over Jenny treating her addiction and presents addiction as completely curable. The directors spend a very long time establishing Jenny’s drug addiction but no time covering her treating it. The only reference we have to her troubled past in the later part of the movie is her mysterious illness that leads to her death and we never see her struggle with residual cravings, depression, or any other real things those going through treatment go through. The representation of a drug addict in this movie is someone who has a troubled past uses drugs to cope with that troubled past and then dies of AIDs. Even after Jenny gets her life together, gets a job, and raises
