I find it quite sad - it looks like a pure accident, that he was just trying to find enough relief so that he could get a night's sleep for once.
I felt sorry for Anna Nicole last year too. It just wasn't that much of a shock; anyone could see that she was clearly an individual who had a lot of problems and sought to rectify them with plastic surgery and drugs. I think it comes as more of a shock with Heath Ledger as he wasn't known to be a drug abuser at all.
Yeah; I don't get the impression this is a drug abuse thing at all. His friends are said to have noticed him being depressed after splitting up with his wife. It doesn't sound like the typical hell-raiser thing. And I agree that it's not necessarily suicide; it's not known for someone to OD because they're just trying to block out their suffering and their responsibility/thinking is dulled too much for them to grasp or care that they'll die. All they're thinking about is being able to sleep, or feel better.
In the end the worst thing is that his kid is two and will barely remember him, but will have to grow up surrounded by public perceptions and fictional roles through which she'll try to piece together what her father was like.
Yeah; I was thinking a lot about that... since it sounds like it would've been a psychologically interesting part, as well as an iconic character, I really think it would've been the start of bigger things for him. He had the potential to play dark stuff (eg. in Monster's Ball), and it's sad that this will be the role he's remembered for instead of the gateway to the rest of his career.
Having checked IMDB, he was supposed to be in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus too, but that one is still filming. Seems like a pretty dark movie too...
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I felt sorry for Anna Nicole last year too. It just wasn't that much of a shock; anyone could see that she was clearly an individual who had a lot of problems and sought to rectify them with plastic surgery and drugs. I think it comes as more of a shock with Heath Ledger as he wasn't known to be a drug abuser at all.
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In the end the worst thing is that his kid is two and will barely remember him, but will have to grow up surrounded by public perceptions and fictional roles through which she'll try to piece together what her father was like.
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Shame, really.
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