Stand up by yourself, don't be lifted up

Delmer 2022-01-09 08:01:01

Billy Wilder has made five serious noir films: Double Insurance, Sunset Boulevard, Prosecution Witness, Upside Down Ace, Lost Weekend. "Lost Weekend" is a movie that is a critical film that focuses on digging out the psychology of the drunkard.

People who are disappointed in the world, depressed by themselves, alcoholism, drug abuse, binge drinking of coffee, and even cough syrup. They need a little medicine to give confidence and willpower. Don't dare to face the facts, let alone face the heart.

Alcoholics are sensitive in their hearts. The writers, Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, and Fitzgerald are all alcoholics. Because of sensitivity, it is closer to the truth, which is often cruel. Sensitive people often feel that they are incompatible with the world, dissatisfied with themselves, and dissatisfied with the world at the same time. If you want to eliminate disappointment, you can only numb that part. Alcohol can make sadness a little bit less.

As soon as the alcoholic finds that his pain appears, he will immediately think of asking for alcohol to relieve his worry. The more the pain occurs, the more you want to escape, the more you rely on alcohol.

In fact, self-confidence, willpower, and optimism are given by me, and no medicine can do it for me. On the surface, I feel comfortable for a while, but in fact, any problems are not solved. The pleasure of drinking is as if the problem has been solved. Without a real solution to the problem, people will never be truly free.

The leading actor is very vivid and takes care of every detail
. He loves the idealism in the heart of the alcoholic and the movies of the golden age of Hollywood very much. Billy Wilder is a very storytelling director. This is a great movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Stephania 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Addiction is like a demon, indulging in it is hard to extricate. The director's precise grasp and vivid performance of the protagonist's addiction to alcohol, even as the first film to seriously discuss the problem of alcoholism, seems mature enough. Although the protagonist walked out of the magic barrier a bit suddenly at the end, the wonderful docking echoed from the beginning to the end is enough to make up for it. Many of the details and lines of this film are very well thought out and beautiful.

  • Lionel 2022-03-25 09:01:14

    Seeing Universal Paramount's double LOGO at this time really had to feel that Paramount was too short-sighted back then. Technically, it is really a comprehensive inheritance of double compensation, the feasibility of making the author's film in the era of the studio. With such a performance, Ray Milan's acting career is really worth it.

The Lost Weekend quotes

  • Wick Birnem: If it happens, it happens and I hope it does. I've had six years of this. I've had my bellyfull... Who are we fooling? We've tried everything, haven't we? We've reasoned with him. We've baited him. We've watched him like a hawk. We've tried trusting him. How often have you cried? How often have I beaten him up? Scrape him out of a gutter and pump some kind of self-respect into him and back he falls, back in every time.

    Helen St. James: He's a sick person. It's as though there was something wrong with his heart or his lungs. You wouldn't walk out on him if he had an attack. He needs our help.

    Wick Birnem: He won't accept our help. Not Don, he hates us. He wants to be alone with that bottle of his. It's all he gives a hang about. Why kid ourselves? He's a hopeless alcoholic.

  • Don Birnam: Let me have one, Nat. I'm dying. Just one.