Very Good Film?。?！

Clearly the director knows what she is doing and has a good sense of cinematic language.

great script and crafted with ideas and care.

Very good performances from the cast. The patients all act very well, which makes them very attractive and lovely to the audience.

This is a definitely woman-oriented movie. It's all about this female protagonist. It has got a precise description of a patient who is addicted to alcohol. And some of the problems can still echo today's topics. It tackles many problems. And I like how the movie approaches to and tackles these issues with gentleness and care. It is a film with sympathy and proper compassion. It also has many sessions that brought you laugh.

I like the end that the female protagonist does not date the guy Viggo Mortensen plays【I was watching for Viggo but he shows up very late in this movie and does not have many scenes. But he is very handsome though.??】. I also like the scene that the guy Viggo plays still has slept with another girl. It probably shows, men just can't change, can't they？Interestingly, in this movie, men keep repeating their mistakes but women either save themselves or destroy themselves. This is a phenomenon that still haunts in movies we produce today. And It is worth some discussion. （there was a classic masculinity scene that the Viggo guy said his bad experience but the Sandra girl refused to tell hers back.）But as for the characters and the story, this film is definitely trying to cast off the cliché that similar movies have.

It is a 2000 film, so it is very impressive that the director uses those rough, shaking and documentary-like footage ( even a little bit of avant-garde maybe？）. There were some criticism about it saying this footage is swirlingly drunk, but I quite like this kind of presentation and experiment. Bold move for the director.

The only regret is that except for the female protagonist and men around her, the other characters lack of more description, which makes them more like a tool instead of specific well-rounded human beings.

Some critics gave negative feedback, criticizing its "Hollywood-like happy ending". I understand why they say this. Because when a movie comes with a topic like this, you're probably expecting or looking for something that involves in-depth discussion and presentation. However, leaving everything on the surface without really digging them in can be a real shame.

However, I still like this movie very much. Because it is enjoyable to watch. It is fun. It's got you related. It's well directed and well cast. And it is encouraging to watch.

Ps. 觀影過程中看見一些熟臉也很驚喜哈哈哈

It's always a surprising delight to see some familiar faces you have not expected to see.

比如伊麗莎白·班克斯，只看過饑餓游戲的我根本不知道原來她這么有氣質(zhì)，she's very pretty. 以及，還有大西洋帝國的男主，竟然能夠很明顯的演技的進(jìn)化程度。V也是。

不過V真的好帥，看見他的臉就覺得開心傻笑的程度，撩一下女主頭發(fā)都覺得這動(dòng)作撩到不行，嘖，請停止散發(fā)你的魅力。