Drunk , in moderation ?

 Hey Charlie ! How are you guys :)

 I've missed you so why not write another blog?

This time it's a movie review , really excited for this one ! I've recently ,and thanks to this movie , been enjoying watching some independent less popular films and it's been quite interesting. 

As you read in the title , the movie is called "drunk" also called "Another round" or " Druk" in Danish. It's a movie my good friend Adel and I watched at les variétés before the lockdown :( And we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into haha 

It's a dansih movie directed by Thomas Vinterberg , it's a provocative premise about four High-school teachers who try to keep an alcoholic buzz . Thomas Vinterberg basically took science and made it very fun ( tragic too but no spoilers) to watch !

It centers on Martin played by Mads Mikkelsen whom already worked with Thomas Vinterberg on " The chase" , Martin was once a star instructor but is going through some sort of vaguely passive midlife crisis; he’s become a bored, ineffectual shadow of himself, and part of the problem is that he doesn’t even realize he’s sleepwalking. He sits in front of his social-studies class, in an unbuttoned plaid shirt worn over a T-shirt, trying to connect with his students, but they’ve stopped responding to him. So has his wife, Trine (She works a lot of night shifts, maybe by choice.)

One night, Martin goes out to a restaurant with his three teacher buddies, who are celebrating the 40th birthday of Nikolaj. The liquor is flowing: a velvet-smooth Russian vodka served with caviar, a red wine that got a 95 rating from Robert Parker. But Martin is drinking soda with lemon! His excuse is that he has to drive home and still has work to do. Martin, says Nikolaj, is just so sensible, adding, “But the question is, what’s sensible?” He cites the theory of a Norwegian philosopher and psychiatrist, Finn Skårderud, who says that it’s sensible to drink. All the time. That's when it gets interesting 😅

Skårderud claims that humans are born with a blood alcohol level that’s .05 percent too low. That’s one or two glasses of wine, and he says that people should drink to that level and maintain it. He says that if you do, you’re more relaxed and poised and musical and open. And more courageous. the prospect of a drama devoted to the creative use of drinking sounds like an intoxicatingly perverse idea ( in a good way)

Martin and his friends agree that they’ll go to school and try this out as an experiment, recording the results as if they were composing a scientific research paper. This movie is a scientific research paper !

Quick note : 

The cinematography is amazing , I completely love how the camera is used 

Danemark looks unbelievable 

Great soundtrack → listen to "what a life" by scarlet pleasure , it'll certainly get you moving ;)

Voila , I hope you've enjoyed reading about this crazy but original movie , it I'll be hard to watch it with this lockdown but still , keep it on your watchlist you won't regret it .