Saturday, May 25, 2013

Withnail & I (1987)

I've gone on record before saying how rampant alcoholism isn't that funny to me, and this is no exception. Ignoring that (quite oppressively large) portion of the film, however, there is (excluding the intensely fluctuating soundtrack in the broadcast I saw) enough interesting elements to make this worthwhile. The intercommunicated relationships are metered out slowly and effectively, for example. And, if you can get past the way things seem to take care of themselves, in a weird way, that is, while the characters drift through their lives in their endless pursuit of booze and boredom, then its enjoyable for that alone.

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