
WiFi at Rock Bottom: Something About Meth
Amancha Coon is in her twenties and addicted to crystal meth, and this short documentary tracks her through repeated cycles of rehab and relapse. Director LD Rowe films her one week before what she has decided will be her last attempt at getting clean, letting her narrate the addiction in her own words rather than reconstructing it through outside experts or dramatization. The film stays close to her account of how the addiction started and how it kept pulling her back even after treatment, without pretending recovery moves in a straight line. Rowe also spent a year trying to get the film made at all, a process detailed in a companion book that pairs Coon's private journal entries, emails, and texts against what she describes on camera. The film itself is short and unadorned, built almost entirely around Coon's testimony and the week leading up to her final effort at sobriety.