It's wine, it's choice

Gussie 2022-03-23 09:02:01

I watched it for Uncle Mai. Although I only watched "Hunting" once, the storyline and character interpretation of "Hunting" made me always have high expectations for him, so "Alcohol Project" was included in the list without hesitation. list. The "Alcohol Project" started with a group of children drinking a case of wine during a race around the lake. After drinking, these young and vigorous children swaggered and got into trouble and were banned from drinking by the school. The four close brothers had a birthday party, and the male protagonist who did not drink alcohol also broke the limit and drank it, which opened the prelude to everyone drinking, and turned to the second stage of the film: after drinking for the first time, the male protagonist went to class I drank alcohol before and found that it was not bad by accident. My friend thought it was very interesting, so they gathered the four to conduct an experiment on "human beings are born with a lack of 0.05% blood alcohol concentration". Just like the stimulants in life, everyone has an unexpected harvest, but it is inevitable to indulge in it and increase the concentration. Compared with the unsatisfactory life, this experiment allowed the four men to find a shortcut to cope with the powerless life, and then reached the third stage: alcoholism, a few people got drunk, urinating, falling, and not drinking. The first stage was even worse, which was not a good thing, so everyone decided to stop. It's a pity that the physical education teacher who helped the difficult-to-group children win the game, Big Brother, couldn't get rid of alcohol. Maybe it was because of the torture of life. He couldn't face it better after getting rid of alcohol. He was addicted to alcohol. finally plunged into the sea. The fourth stage is occasion-specific drinking, for mourning, for celebration, for joy, for release.

I think I like this movie. When people are middle-aged, their careers are not going well, their families are conflicted, and their lives are full of infinite numbness, weakness, and fatigue. However, with the help of alcohol, they can temporarily arouse the joy of life. Better harvest after alcohol made them happy.

But wine is wine after all, such an intoxicated dream will eventually fall more miserably, and the distraction of consciousness will never change the chaos of reality.

What can wine bring to people? It can make people enter another state to feel everything, it can also make people forget the unbearable life or stimulate strong emotions, it can bring people rich creative inspiration, and it can also make people addicted. Escape the last doom.

The film borrows alcohol to reflect every living person in life, it's just a prop, someone needs it like a Prozac, someone needs it like a stimulant, someone needs it like a drug. The mental processes and states of these people are so real.

Life is full, how to drink? Do not overdose. To face the truth, to meet the changes, to face the challenges, to accept the emotions, I hope you can always feel life in the most appropriate way, both joys and sorrows, and live well.

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Extended Reading
  • Tamara 2022-03-27 09:01:09

    Four middle-aged male teachers, who are also close friends of their classmates, decided to conduct a personal evaluation of the idea that "blood alcohol concentration of 0.05% is good for physical and mental health" after encountering bottlenecks in life. As the alcohol concentration rises, what awaits them is not the clear and dark mood, but the stagnation of life that has been avoided for decades. Thomas Winterberg's image mastery gives this story of midlife crisis a personified sense of frail power. The obedience and subtle sensitivity that Max Mikkelsen gave Martin made the whole film a qualitative change. The traces of unruliness squeezed out of a low-pressure life may not be a real happiness.

  • Ole 2022-03-25 09:01:09

    Extreme joy should be the same as sadness. When the alcohol content reached 0.5‰, the camera also gave up sobriety, and immediately joined the swinging ranks, so that after re-sobering, I didn’t know where to look, which made the entire viewing experience a psychedelic immersive 4D experience. Uncle Mai dances well.

Another Round quotes

  • Peter: Are we or are we not alcoholics?

    Nikolaj: We're not alcoholics. We decide when we want to drink. An alcoholic can't help himself.

  • Martin: So, when you run around totally wasted, throwing up in bushes and alleys, don't feel alone, because you're in great company.