It Gets Depressin' 'Round Midnight

I started watching a movie last night called "'Round Midnight".  It's loosely based on the lives of Bud Powell and and Lester Young.  It's set in Paris in the early sixties and directed by some frog director which means it has some subtitles.  I'm only half way through it (it's over 2 hours long) and I can tell you it's depressing.

The real saving grace is the award winning score by Herbie Hancock and the movie features the likes of Herbie as well as Wayne Shorter, Dexter Gordon, Ron Carter and Tony Williams among others.  So far it's been mostly playing in a small club, drinking and blackouts.

I shut it off last night because it was getting late but I don't know if I can finish watching it tonight.  The music is great but unless the plot takes an unexpected upward swing, I don't know if I can take it. I'm starting to see why so many jazz musicians got into heroin.