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Tale
When he drives drunk, Mark loses his license and has to go through MPA. He meets Helena at a course and tries to get sober with her, but temptations lurk everywhere..
Later [00:42:35] the calendar pages pinned up in Mark’s apartment showed that he had only been successful for 25 days
After Mark’s first failed attempt to get sober, Helen mentioned that he only managed to get sober for 27 days [00:41:50]. This film is not just about the main character’s fight against a serious illness, but more about how society deals with the fine line between enjoying alcohol or other drugs and when life spirals out of control because of it.
Jung and his neighbor
The same fine line is drawn between admiring that he is not boring and living life to the fullest and not allowing himself much pleasure – this is a very interesting moment between Mr. Alcohol certainly facilitates the way to have fun partying, but it is a fragile and short-lived fad that can easily turn into aggression.
Although the plot does not contain many surprises, it still clearly shows that alcohol cannot be an accessory to a happy life for obvious reasons
It is a delicate subject, with great acting and, frankly, much better than expected – more serious than you would think based on the cast and the setting.
