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ANOMIE INFLECTION POINT

We’ve decided on a working title for the film: Anomie Inflection Point. It’s certainly tentative, but we needed something to call this project while we’re doing casting and other organizational/promotional-type things. We took the title from Jacob Waletzky‘s unfinished novel Distortion Lens. The story’s protagonist (Joseph) is a graduate NYU film student who decides to document his socialite heroin addict older brother’s ventures into the New York nightlife for a film he intends to call “The Force of Depravity.”

The term “anomie inflection point” comes from a bit of dialogue between Joseph and his brother:

“…You shouldn’t leave though, we just hit the anomie inflection point.”

“And what is that?”

“When the drugs stop working and it’s too late to go home and you don’t like the people you’re with, and the women are awful and you probably can’t fuck them anyway, ’cause you’ve got dope dick or coke dick or whatever, but leaving with them is probably the best you can fucking do, because at least that way there’s some kinda semi logical point of departure.”

Waletzky died of a cocaine-induced arrythmia before he was able to complete the novel. The unfinished work was published by Columbia University’s journal press and is available for free from the Addiction Recovery Guide.

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