This movie is about alcohol. It is set in the era of three-martini lunch and “drinks with the boys” after a hard day’s work. In today’s era, people still drink after a day’s work or in corporate parties and dinners.

Joe clay a hard drinking hard working public relations man lives and works in San Francisco. In the course of his work, he meets Kirsten Arnesen, a secretary who hates liquor but adores chocolate. However, she is quickly converted to drinking by Joe who is an alcoholic. In a few months after they get married, she is able to match him for every drink. She has already turned alcoholic. Within four years after marriage, Joe manages to lose five jobs and the couple decided to move in with Kirsten’s father and also stay off alcohol for some time. One night when they go for a monumental bender, Joe destroys the green house as he looks for a bottle of beer he had hidden and he ends up in the hospital.

Hungerford encourages Joe to stop drinking and join drinking anonymous but his wife lures him back to drinking. Joe finally realizes that they are doomed as long as Kirsten refuses to admit to her alcoholism and he takes their child and moves to another apartment. Helped by the A, Joe is able to reestablish his career as public relations man and has also manages to regain self respect.  On night Kirsten visit Joe begging him to take her back but she is sent away for she refuses to give up drinking.

I feel bad about the characters in the movie. Joe was the alcoholic and he introduced Kirsten to drinking. Kirsten herself hated liquor but she gives in partly because she is still young and naïve. She quickly falls in love with Joe. Take for example the scene where she goes to her father’s house to introduce Joe late at night. In addition, when the father argues that he does not understand Joe’s line of work, she is quick to say that it is complicated.

A young naive and beautiful girl is introduced to alcoholic and she becomes worse than the introducer. In today’s life, this kind of thing still happens. Young people are introduced to alcoholism and drugs and ends up being addicted. It is common to find that those people who introduce the young generation are just after their money. They are the drug peddlers and they are just doing business. However, they ruin young minds without a second thought. Joe thought it was fun drinking with Kirsten but it later becomes a problem. Kirsten turns into another person as Joe recovers from the drinking problem.

At the end, Joe recovers but Kirsten does not. Kirsten self destroys herself with alcoholism. To some extent. One can argue that Joe was drinking as part of his daily routine which is a drink with the boys after work. Though the problem costs him several jobs and he tends to get out of hand, he still manages to quit and get his life back. Kirsten on the other hand started drinking because Joe was drinking. She ends up getting into an addiction she cannot recover from.

In an article by Kim Morgan on Huffington post, Morgan argues that one can easily see that Kirsten (Lee Remick) is going to fall hard for taking liquor. A woman who only loved chocolate reveals her weaknesses when she starts dating Joe (Morgan, 2013).  This information is consistent with what I have watched in the movie. Kirsten is introduced to alcoholism by Joe. She never recovers from the problem but Joe does. Her innocent enjoyment of the chocolate cocktail is tragic by how unaware she is of the problem she is creating.

Reference

Morgan, K. (2013, February 06). Sad Men: Jack Lemmon and Days of Wine and Roses. Retrieved May 06, 2016, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kim-morgan/sad-men-jack-lemmon-and-d_b_2634342.html

Double Indemnity movie

Walter, an insurance salesman who is very successful though bored meets Phyllis Dietrichson, a lazy beautiful woman who is currently married by a man who she nursed her wife to death. Walter falls in love with Phyllis. Phyllis on the other hand wants Walter to sell her husband a $50000 double indemnity insurance policy and then later arrange for the husband’s death. `Walter is willing to do so partly because he is in love with her. The husband is chocked to death before a train ride.

In the movie double indemnity, Phyllis Dietrichson the unhappy wife of an older and wealthy man is sexually objectified both by the imagery of the movie and her character position as related to other characters. She is alluring and beautiful, and she is slightly older than Lola, her stepdaughter. One thing that comes out is that she has no affection for her husband especially since she plots to kill him with the aim of receiving the insurance claim. On the other hand, the man also married her due to her physical looks. He does not respect her as a human being since she is always complaining that he does not respect her. He is much concerned about his daughter’s welfare before the welfare of his wife.  It is also obvious that he does not trust her I that he insured his life in the name of his daughter.

From his actions, it is clear that he cared less about what happened to Phyllis. Lola is his flesh and blood, and he is making sure her wellbeing is catered for.  He views Phyllis as a plaything and not a human being. She is beautiful, an expensive possession and a walking artwork to be looked art and admired but not entitled to a life of its own. It’s like when he dies she will no longer existed and thus feels no need to provide for her well-being after his death. In a physical sense, Dietrichson is rarely present in the movie. However, one has a feeling of how he looks at his wife from her family position and her words. It is like he is incapable of accepting the truth that Phyllis killed his first wife. By default, she is blameless simply for she is desirable and beautiful.

Looking at it from a rather darker level, Phyllis is physically better than his first wife thus a better replacement. However, he refuses to elevate her to a higher level of divinity; he just wants to be an object he can possess, have to control over and always be there for him to look at. It is not surprising to note that he is not the only character in the movie who views her this way. The central male figure and the narrator of the movie Walter Neff describe Phyllis as an object for admiration.

 
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