
If you are hooked to liquor or smoking or any other form of addiction, than this is absolutely the film for you. Grim degradation of alcoholism is never so absorbing and painful to watch as Wilder’s this classic. Evan after sixty years of its making it still seems fresh and original in its execution.
In the opening shot of this classic we witness the desperation of booze addicted protagonist. Don Birnam is a self proclaimed Hemingway but a failed writer and loser turned into a pathetic hopeless alcoholic. ‘I am not a drinker…I am drunk’, he said to his beloved. His caring brother and a lover failed in their all trials and testimony to abstain him from liquor. Billy Wilder showed us the personal world of compulsive alcoholic with great detailing and Ray Milland enacted his part so subjectively and meticulously that we feel the drama from his point of view. He steals, cheats, lies, exploits, ignores and even begs anything and anyone for the sack of his bottle. Undoubtedly his most intense act of lifetime winning him Oscar. Wilder and Milland showed us successfully an inanimate antagonist in the form of liquor. As unconditional and supportive lover Jane Wyman is like a sweet angel for the lost man.

Must watch for any classic lover.
Ratings- 10/10
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