Der Steppenwolf

Ray Milland ganaría el premio de la academia por su representación como Don Birnam, un escritor alcohólico a punto del suicidio en The Lost Weekend, película de Billy Wilder, quien a su vez ganaría el Oscar como mejor director. Esta es una de las primeras películas que trata el tema del alcoholismo en hollywood… (tema recurrente que ha permitido grandes representaciones tal como muchos años después lo demostró Nicholas Cage en Leaving Las Vegas)

Un guión brillante acompañado de una actuación brillante… segmentos como el siguiente muestran con claridad el sentir de un alcóholico…(Tomado de Aquí)

DON : Don’t talk like a child. You can’t cut it short! You’re on that merry-go-round and you’ve got to ride it all the way, round and round, till the blasted music wears itself out and the thing dies down and clunks to a stop.
NAT : Hey, how about you eatin’ some of this?
DON : Take it away.
NAT : You gotta eat somethin’ sometime.
DON : Just give me another drink.
NAT : Mr. Birnam, this is the mornin’.
DON : That’s when you need it most, in the morning. Haven’t you learned that yet? At night, this stuff’s a drink. In the morning, it’s medicine.

NAT : Okay if I eat?
DON : A little to one side. Nat, are you ever scared when you wake up? So scared the sweat starts out of ya, huh? No, no you. With you it’s simple. Your alarm clock goes off and you open your eyes and brush your teeth and read the Daily Mirror. That’s all. Do you ever lie in you bed looking at the window? A little daylight’s coming through, and you start to wonder: is it getting lighter, is it getting darker? Is it dawn or dusk? That’s a terrifying problem, Nat. Because if it’s dawn, you’re dead. The bars are closed and the liquor stores don’t open till nine o’clock, and you can’t last till nine o’clock. Or it maybe Sunday. That’s the worst. No liquor stores at all. And you guys wouldn’t open a bar, not until one o’clock. Why? Why, Nat?
NAT : Because we gotta go to church once in a while. That’s why.
DON : Yeah, when a guy needs it most.