Tag Archives: Alcohol

Barfly (1987) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : And here goes their another day with bottles

Posted on April 5, 2011 by kaist455

In the biochemistry class during my naive undergraduate years, the professor jokingly said the capability of metabolizing alcohol depends on our genetic makeup. Thanks to the variations in the genes, some people can produce more enzymes or more active enzymes … Continue reading →

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Educating Rita (1983) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4) : When the movie doesn’t believe in characters

Posted on September 26, 2010 by kaist455

The main problem of Lewis Gilbert’s “Educating Rita”(1983) is it does not believe in its two characters much. If the movie just had concentrated on the dynamics between these interesting people, the result could have been a lot, or a little at least, better than what we get now. However, it pads their story with useless elements, and that is the major mistake of this movie. Whenever it does not have two good characters created by two fabulous performers on the screen, the movie loses its power in most cases, and, alas, that happens quite frequently throughout the story. While enjoying good parts of it, I lost my interest minute by minute. Continue reading →