Thoughts about a genius and his addiction-

I have always believed the mark of a great artist is the ability to make the observer uncomfortable. Hoffman’s performance in Boogie Nights was a perfect example, brilliant in its conveyance of the character. I was truly saddened upon the news that his addiction to heroin took his life. No one will know why he went back, only he knew. It is one of the strange ways of this life, to ease the chaos, to hide, to succumb to weakness in the face of the truth? No one knows, but what a loss.

Thomas Brandstrader