Film · Paramount · 1945
The Lost Weekend
61Watch it awake.
If there's a drinker in your house, you'll recognize it, and it isn't stylish.
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The review
I would not call it a comfort, and the film doesn't either. A writer arranges a weekend alone with the bottle. Milland. His brother and the woman who loves him try to hold him, and he has already planned to slip them. The delirium is in it. I won't linger. Adult.
A house with a drinker will recognize the arranging. It does not treat the bottle as a style, which is why I trust it more than prettier pictures about men who drink. Not for children. If you put it on, put it on because someone needs that recognition, not a mood to sip beside. The people who love him are a life. The weekend is him refusing their hold.
Journal
Keep The Lost Weekend in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic is the thin one.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
A Raisin in the Sun
73 instead of 61
A Raisin in the Sun is still a drama film, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is republic: A house in a white neighborhood is the public fact, and the film does not treat it as a symbol only.
The eight
- 5Industry
He is a writer, and the weekend is him not doing the work.
- 8Household
A brother and a woman who loves him try to hold a real life.
- 6Piety
They try to stop him. He arranged the weekend so they could not.
- 6Courage
Staying near him costs them the quiet weekend he just threw off.
- 3Republic
No town is asked for anything. The hold on him is private.
- 7Temperance
The bottle owns the weekend, and the film will not call that style.
- 8Truth
A drinker's house will recognize it. The delirium is not prettied.
- 6Stewardship
Recognition is what's left, not a comfort and not a way to drink.
Where to watch
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