Antonia Tejeda Barros Candy is my favorite Heath movie. A masterpiece about love and addiction. It started filming on January 27, 2005 and was released on February 15, 2006. Candy is 1.000 times better than Trainspotting (and Trainspotting was really good) and 1.000 times less known than Trainspotting. Candy is a touching and strong love story full of despair, hope, regrets, dreams & failures. The story does not try to judge, punish or teach. There are no good and bad guys. Candy is a human and honest portrayal of the hell of heroine, a story about real love and a movie that will break your heart into a million pieces. Heath describes the movie like "a film of love (…) not a story about heroine". Heath explains: "Heroine is involved but I think that the beauty of this film (is that) it's not exploding heroine or glorifying it in any way (…) It's a tragic story of love". Director Neil Armfield was a bit hesitant about using Heath as Dan, since he thought that Heath had a natural energy that was heroic, and Dan was grubby and edgy. But, again, it was Heath's performance in Monter's Ball that "got him" the role. Luke Davies (the writer of the book upon which the movie is based and screenwriter of the movie, together with director Neil Armfield) wrote a beautiful and touching article about Heath after Heath's death; he describes Heath as a talented, generous, kind and sincere human being, and says: "It was Monster's Ball that convinced Neil Armfield that Ledger was the one for Candy". What attracted Heath to the project was the novel, which he describes like a "tragic love affair with both the drug and each other", the screenplay and the fact of being allowed to use his own accent, which he didn't do since Two Hands and 10 things I hate about you: "shooting a film using my own accent was attractive … I haven't done that for 8 years. I was looking forward to feeling liberated from … having to perform with an accent … It was a sense of freedom. I was able to mumble in my own accent, to breath in my own accent, to improvise freely". Abbie Cornish gives a breathtaking performance. Heath says about Abbie: "… she's incredibly talented … She relies a lot upon … instinct and the magic of the scene, and she keeps it real and she's a very grounded human being, very talented obviously, very beautiful… I could not have asked for a better Candy". I must say that Abbie is the strongest and most brilliant female character of all of Heath's movies. I'd go further and say that two of the most beautifully portrayed love stories in cinema history are the ones of Ennis and Jack, and Candy and Dan. Candy is a real jewel. Director Armfield is awesome and the cast (Heath, Abbie and Geoffrey Rush) is superb.

Sophia Kodjamanova "Candy" is one of these movies which left you so much to think about. While I was watching the movie mixed emotions went though me. Such like joy, delight, melancholy, disgust, sadness and sympathy. There are so realistic and horrific scenes and at the same time so beautiful and catching moments. The opening scene is one of the most beautiful things made in art of the cinema. The music, the deep and rich voice of gorgeous Heath Ledger, all the words with which he is describing the great love. The big love that raises you to heaven. And so the first stage of drug addicts is like heaven. They don't think for the consequences or the risks, not even about their heath and the people who they can hurt. All about they care about is the pleasure which they feel. The unconditional love and the heroin are blinded Dan and Candy and they don't feel how turn their direction to the ground very speedily. The hit of the realistic life on earth overturn their minds, all the sweetness and love are gone. Here they are two young persons, talented and artistic in nature, confronted to face their nude or what they've become. The most sad and hard moment for me was when Dan saw the writings on the wall by Candy about their life story. Somehow when I listen to the words and review all the story I wish I experience that kind of love, unconditional, twisting everything inside you and make you do everything about a person, who sometimes you love and sometimes you hate for being so deep inside of you. I adore the movie, so realistic and terrific, shows how drugs can ruin a human's life. Heath is wonderful, charming and gets really into the role, like always. Love him. R.I.P

Hello-Beautiful Intense moments in this film really can shake an absorbed viewer to their core. "Candy" drags the viewer into the down & dirty life of heroine-addicts-in-love who are truly at the mercy of the drug, day in & day out, to the point that they resort to prostitution. If you can handle it, you'll get a fairly accurate & intimate glimpse of addiction at its worst ...full of nasty needles, self- destruction, co-dependency, death, withdrawals, poverty & the like. Heath & Abbie are devastatingly genuine & will definitely appeal to the bohemian/indie flick lovers. You can practically eat up their flaming chemistry. Some mainstream watchers with an understanding (or experience) in the subject matter will likely find this to be a moving cinematic piece as well. I would say the acting & intimacy of it all makes it stand apart from just being another "druggie movie."The ending is not necessarily "satisfying" to most, so don't see this expecting generic Hollywood entertainment.*** On Another Note *** SO sad to see this film compared to Blue Valentine!! "Blue Valentine" leads the viewer to believe in the common fallacy that one should/can get married to change or "train" their spouse instead of loving them for who they are, unconditionally. Overall the shallow & heartless tale pales in comparison to the film Candy, because Heath's character actually makes the sacrifice of love for the well-being of his wife (unlike BV.) Disappointing to see that a story about a heroine addict can be used to portray love better & truer than a shallow story about a supposedly *matured* mother.

case_327 *No direct spoilers*I have watched this movie six times in two days, it is that addicting.A few slow scenes here and there, but well worth it.To be honest, you get so lost in the movie because of Cornish and Ledger's great chemistry when they act together. You actually want their love to be in reality.As powerful and shocking as the relationship between them is, including their powerful drug addiction, I could not watch it fully through the first time I watched it. But for some reason Cornish and Ledger's chemistry in the movie kept me thinking I should go ahead and finish the movie. Very happy I chose to do so. When you cheat life with mind-alternating substances, there will be consequences. The ending was nothing that I was expecting, and I STRONGLY encourage you to check this out, if you're not in the mood for something like The Notebook, or completely closured movies.P.S. *I could not understand probably 50% of what was being said because of the heavy accents. To fix this I turned on my TV's caption, since the movie does not come with English subtitles.*