According to the art: Patrick Radden Keefe goes deep into how and why the Sackler family and its company, Purdue Pharma, fueled the epidemic with its product OxyContin.
According to the art: The movie tells the story of a psychiatrist traveling around to asylums in the US performing lobotomies during the mid-1950s when they were falling out of favor. While familiar horrors long associated with lobotomies and asylums are shown, their purpose in the movie is conveying the dangers of overconfidence and hubris existing in the US then and now.