He is a Hollywood agent, she is a prostitute. Those who found ittoo extreme were simply lucky enough never to have arrived there themselves.įewfilms are more despairing and yet, curiously, so hopeful as this one, whichargues that even at the very end of the road, at the final extremity, we canfind some solace in the offer and acceptance of love. The movie tells the story of Ben and Sera, played by Nicolas Cage and ElisabethShue. It is also asad, trembling portrait of the final stages of alcoholism. Mike Figgis' 'Leaving Las Vegas' (1995) is not a lovestory, although it feels like one, but a story about two desperate people usinglove as a form of prayer and a last resort against their pain.
