Alcoholism: A Film Analysis

The movie began with a woman flirting and drinking with the guy, where the husband played it like it was nothing. . I knew alcohol was an issue when she sat there and promised her husband that she would she would stop drinking liquor and turned around and returned home after a vacation and the first thing she did. When she returned of from vacation was act like she was going outside in the middle of the night to throw away the bottle of liquor and made sure she took some last sips and locked herself in the process. Of course there other situations that I took of where that basically confirmed my accusation of her being an alcoholic. Two incidents that displayed traits of alcoholism were very clear to me. One took place where she came home

She became angry when he would insist on doing things his way and stated the she see a psychiatrist/counselor. One day after he became to feel awkward about their marriage he came home to his wife conversing and laughing with Gary, the same guy from the rehab place in his house. To top it off the man had his feet up and leaned back in a chair like he was the one working to pay bills in his house. The fact that she had the nerve to get mad at her husband who stuck by and took care of the kids while she was going through her situation and took care of the older daughter who is not his is mindboggling. She even stated that Gary is there for her in ways that he hasn’t been. Later in the movie she even stated that her husband makes her feel weak and makes her skin crawl. He moves out as a result, one day he stops by and sees Gary getting dropped off by a taxi in the middle of the night at his house. That pretty much pushes him over the edge goes to his weekly meetings and finally opens up with to everyone with how he’s been holding

I must say that they do have their similarities and their differences. We know that under the influence of alcohol both will do things they would not do if in one was in the sober state. Both usually come to alcohol in the time of need and relaxation to defer the mind from things that are occurring in their daily lives. It is no secret that women becoming drunk faster because their body’s usually can’t consume nowhere near the amount of alcohol as the body of a man. Woman also have to worry about the kidney and liver diseases because they come along with the consumption of alcohol and since alcohol is more potent to a woman’s body compared to that of a man’s due to the body’s ability to deal with alcohol