Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
A strong movie, and one of the more stylish exercises in 90's indie film. Ultimately, I didn't love it as much as I thought I would, but that's not to say it doesn't have a lot to love.
For one, Sydney's excellent performance as the stoic and pragmatic gambler. He is a man that accepts the reality of a given situation and incessantly demands a plan. His questions are direct and simple. You get the sense that he is hiding…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I have mixed feelings about alcoholics. I have seen it up close. Their lives often have glaring internal wounds left untreated, and you get the sense once they get tipsy and charismatic that things could have been different, that there is a person underneath the numbness.
Still, by the time you get to that point, the groundwork has often been laid. It's a creeping process, one that builds over time. The important question being why you drink, not how much.…