The young American actor Timothy Chalamit was nominated a few days ago for the Golden Globe Award for his most recent role in the 2018 film "Beautiful Boy," in which he played the role of young Nick Schiff, who suffers from drug addiction.

Nick and his father, David, the hero of the film, are based on real people who have experienced the same suffering as the characters on the screen, both of whom have come out of the difficult experience with a book in which to present their experience. This is the starting point for director Felix van Gruenigen to help Locke Davis write the screenplay.

the beginning
The film begins with a question posed by the father of the press to a doctor who thinks he is coming to work with him, but he explains that he is here personally to learn more about this terrifying ghost that dominated his life and the life of his son. His family almost destroys methamphetamine, which is the most dangerous drug. Treat them.

This question takes us to another question mark: Why? A question that destroys the father and tries to respond to him throughout the events. Why did his older son, the beautiful young man who loves drawing, writing, reading and exercising, quit all this and drug addiction and destroy his life?

"My life changed from black and white to color when I first tried meth," he says. "He's spending his time looking for the drug to find that magical moment of transformation again.

But behind this answer, which may be initially satisfactory, lies other hidden answers that we explore during the events about the role of the family in Nick's approach to addiction. Was his father's divorce a hand in that? And more importantly the role of the family in getting rid of this gap that attracts them all.

A full circle of suffering
Although the real crisis of the film stems from Nick the addicted son of the addict, the narrative most of the time comes from the perspective of Father David, who suffers from several feelings representing a complete circle, began to deny when he knew the addiction of his son, and then the guilt because he did not feel it until after He turned to disaster and came out of control, and then attempts to help the young and sent to a clinic to treat addicts, to overcome the sense of hope before it breaks again when he recognizes the fact will become firmly established in his world after that, "relapse" to start the cycle again so until End to the point where this pattern is broken Ed cost him his family, and knows that the permanent assistance provided to his son at this stage that is no longer viable, and the desire of salvation must come from the same Nick.

But Gruenigen was not only to follow the attempts to cure Nick, but to help the viewer to find an answer to the most important question "why?", So through the parallel montage we moved time repeatedly between the past and present to create links between results and actions.

When the father discovers his son's addiction to drugs, we come back through Flashback to the anniversary of the son's insistence on smoking marijuana with him to celebrate one of his school achievements and accept him after hesitation, contrary to his role as a parent who is supposed to prevent his son from doing so either in his absence or in attendance. The past is an attempt to communicate with his mature and mature son, and in the present it is a great fall that he considered the cornerstone of his guilt towards a small one.

The power of the father-son relationship is also illustrated by the use of montage and flashback. We find small words spoken in the past that have roots in the past. The word "everything" which the father and son repeat every time they meet or separate is not merely a repetition of them. In the past, we follow her and know that the father and mother are separated. The young man had to move between San Francisco and Los Angeles from time to time, and the father's separation was painful for the young man, and this word came to express his father's love for his son more than anything else in life.

The director's goal was not to pursue treatment attempts but to help find a "why?" Answer. (Social Media)

Muhammad is the question and the answer
The film presented a true picture of the two books, taking the most important details and putting them in their own view of the situation. But he was committed to asking questions without providing answers to them, leaving room for interaction and reflection. Is it due to the separation of parents, the shattered life he lived or were there other reasons?

While in the two books and television interviews it is even clearer. Nick suffered the worst kind of depression in which a person behaves normally, but may be excellent but inside is torn and sad.

At the age of four, Nick's parents separated and suffered from mobility and confusion between the two homes and parents, but apparently remained the best school teacher and captain of the water polo team. But at the age of 11 he first drank alcohol and then began his addiction to alcohol and drugs. End and deteriorate and discover his father.

"For me the world was tough and hard to deal with, I felt desperate and I started drinking alcohol and I could not stop anymore. I always felt ugly, weak and pathetic, sick as if there was something wrong with me, I hated myself and I always needed orgasm only To escape this feeling. "

In a television interview, David Schiff said he felt guilty about his son. He said it was normal for a father who always felt that any son's speech was wrong at first, and admitted during his book that he wished he had discovered his son's addiction early, He gave as much support as possible to his youngster until he managed to get out of the crisis after years of misery.

The film "Ould Jameel" premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and then in the United States on October 12, and Chlamyt is expected to win the second Oscar nomination for the second consecutive year after his nomination last year for "Nadine Basemak" Call Me By Your Name).