“The War Within” is a short film written and directed by David Ludlow in 2008. I originally wrote the concept for this film way back in January 2004 after volunteering at a Melbourne homeless shelter and meeting a few former heroin addicts, who described narcotic abuse as a “cycle”. It was only after completing my bit-part on Steven Spielberg’s “The Pacific” in December 2007, that I finally found time to produce this short film at the beginning of 2008. (Warning: Film contains infrequent …