Atypical, emotionally powerful look at alcoholism as a matter of fact piece of life. As a one time great photographer tries to get a handle on his drinking, he tries to get in touch with his family and with life.
Its a warts and all nonjudgmental look at some one who drinks. Its funny and terrifying and painfully sad because everyone knows where its going since the body can only take so much, and our hero has gone past that.
Not the great drunks of Leaving Las Vegas or Charles Bukowski, this is more the people we know and love. It's a film that refuses to take a typical look at the disease and go in other directions, leaving bits off screen. While this may anger some, I think it allows us to ponder things in a new way. It's things down the road when change being attempted but which may end up not saving anyone. We don't need to see the binges and the violence we know they are there, this is another point in time.
I have no idea what I ultimately think about it but it's a film that made me think and made me feel.
Its a warts and all nonjudgmental look at some one who drinks. Its funny and terrifying and painfully sad because everyone knows where its going since the body can only take so much, and our hero has gone past that.
Not the great drunks of Leaving Las Vegas or Charles Bukowski, this is more the people we know and love. It's a film that refuses to take a typical look at the disease and go in other directions, leaving bits off screen. While this may anger some, I think it allows us to ponder things in a new way. It's things down the road when change being attempted but which may end up not saving anyone. We don't need to see the binges and the violence we know they are there, this is another point in time.
I have no idea what I ultimately think about it but it's a film that made me think and made me feel.