Angie is a 19-year-old girl who gets ready to join the university for her first year there. Her life turns upside down when her parents stop sending her money and her financial condition becomes bad. But she finds its' success in the drug field in which she starts with some small selling then she turns to be one of the biggest dealers.
[Wang's] screenplay is a roiling yet random stew of melodramatic elements all too calculated to wring the most extreme emotional reaction from the viewer.
Wang doesn't attempt to garner any undeserved sympathy for her younger self or over-explain her erratic behavior. She simply lays out the facts (as best she can relay them) and affords the viewer the ability to pass judgment.
"MDMA"... doesn't fully communicate the context of Angie's experience priors to the film, keeping us removed from the character and the movie as a whole.
