
Indeed, the melancholy that follows the rush can be enjoyable but it can also fuck with your head and, given that E is a powerful drug, can lead to more seriously damaging symptoms and behaviour.

Its users know that there’s a fine line between the two. Either way, this is the guide to pingers on the big screen – the Cannes of gurners, if you like.ĭon't drop before the titles roll as you might end up wasting your popcorn.Įcstasy is a bittersweet experience: incredibly palpable highs and brutally crushing lows. Some you'll have rightly seen many times before, others are E deep cuts and there are a few that only ardent MDMA nerds will want to check out. Here are the best MDMA and ecstasy films to date in chronological order. Read this next: This is how MDMA reached the UK in 1988 It's notoriously difficult to capture the club atmosphere and its associated drug experience on film but that hasn't stopped writers and directors from trying.
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Many filmmakers have tried to encapsulate this magical state of being with varying degrees of success and to the point that the ecstasy movie ( along with the ecstasy song) is very much a Hollywood sub-genre.

Partake or not, a Big Night Out on E with your best mates listening to your favourite DJs is one of the main dance music tropes, something that countless people have done that's taken on a mythical quality thanks to it being a shared experience which usually results in some kind of epiphany (brief, long-lasting or otherwise) along the way.

MDMA and, in pill form, ecstasy is intertwined with dance music and rave culture.
