Rock star Sting, former lead singer of The Police, openly talks about psychedelic drugs in new Netflix documentary Have A Good Trip. The documentary comes out on May 11th, but a brand-new trailer gives first insight on what to expect. Other people that are shown in the trailer include US-rapper A$AP Rocky, Ben Stiller, American actress Sarah Silverman and more.
The documentary discovers the history of psychedelics, the pros and cons and its cultural impact, as well as the possibilities of treating addiction and depression. “I don’t think psychedelics are the answers to the world’s problems”, Sting says in the opening, “but they could be a start.” Actor Nick Offerman appears as a mad professor, standing in front of a chalkboard in a lab, asking the camera “what is going on in your brain when you’re tripping?” The scenarios displayed on the screen seem indeed trippy, loads of bright, colourful animations are shown in between scenes of musicians, actors and comedians talking about their own experiences with hallucinogens. “No lie, a rainbow shout out of my dick”, A$AP Rocky says whilst trying to keep a straight face.
The trailer already promises a lot of funny scenes and anecdotes: We get to see a cartoon version of Sting talking to grass as the real life Sting explains that he once thought the grass was talking to him whilst he was tripping, Sarah Silverman wondering “it’s always when you say ‘I don’t feel anything’, that’s usually the tipping point, ‘do I feel anything? What is feeling?” and Rosie Perez thinking that her body became one with her bed.
Ben Stiller admits he’s only taken acid once: “Maybe didn’t even need to,” he says. “Probably could have just watched this documentary.” If you don’t want to take psychedelic drugs to find out how you’d react to it, like Ben Stiller did, head over to Netflix on May 11th to watch as celebrities are taking a trip down memory lane.