I reckon this is the best documentary I've ever seen, and I've seen many. It is very gruelling, don't expect an easy ride.
Paul Watson, a very very experienced, honourable documentary maker, follows four alcoholics. The brilliant, inspiring, realistic doctor who is attempting to treat them also appears. So do some of their dependents, when they have any. Avoiding spoilers, I can say that, of the four subjects, two are older, two younger; also of those two are male and two female.
What happens to them totally involved me and I was shocked, saddened, angered, amused, disturbed. Totally, put through the mangle, we might say in the UK.
I have a young friend who is a newly-qualified doctor. He asked me to bring round my DVD copy. We sat and watched it in total silence. At the end, he said he thought that every medical practitioner should see it. It is superb.
If you live in an alcohol-drinking country, particularly the UK, whether you're a light drinker, a heavy drinker, a child, a teacher, a parent, a youth leader, someone working with the elderly, a sports coach, a boss, a shopkeeper, a police officer, a social worker, anyone you should see this movie. Watch with your sons and daughters (perhaps over the age of 14). They should know what alcohol, abused, can do and you won't find a finer expression of that than this brilliant movie.
