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slogan_jim


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Hey everyone,

Last night me and a co-worker/friend went to go see the the new Denzel Washington movie, Flight.

I bring this up because the movie tackles alcoholism and how it can rip someone's life apart. The alcoholic in the movie gets caught up in their lies and for me, it was some pretty heavy duty stuff to watch. The role of the alcoholic was very well played. In the movie, there are scenes in which they attend meetings, and the dialogue really hit home with me as someone having to listen to an alcoholic lie and manipulate all the time. Failed sobriety, isolation, arrogance....it's all there.

Even though it was a movie, I could honnestly feel as though the alcoholic was my alcoholic. It was quite the experience.

Just wanted to share.



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Hi Jim, just last night I had someone in AA tell me about this movie as well. It sounds like one that I would like to see. Thanks for the post about it.

Willow

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Debilyn


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Thank you Jim, I will make sure I don't miss it.

co worker?? female?? Snoopy mind wants to know. hehe

You sound like a neat man, from my experience, all those things I shared with you were what I did. I too HATE to date. So doing some busywork at the same time, or something we could talk about was the key.

Would really like to see you build up your self love and confidense. Remember no one knows you feel like you to. Plus the best thing to do is ask about them. Not so much how are you but what do you do for fun? work? Just don't want you to end up alone like me.

hugs,debilyn



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slogan_jim


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haha thanks Debilyn,

No it was a male co-worker.

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I watched the movie "When a Man Loves a Woman" a very long time ago. The woman being the alcoholic in the relationship. Long ago, that movie was romantically sweet, he loved her so much, Meg Ryan and Andy Garcia, what's not to love? Watched the same movie recently and saw SO much more! Watched "28 Days" with Sandra Bullock seeing so much more the latter times than the original because the latter times I had dealt with alcoholism on such a personal level.

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I'll keep it on my list of movies to watch, when it make it's way around here in two or three years from now.

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Thanks! Decided to go see and its a fantastic movie, very true to life and doesn't fantasize with a magical getting sober event. It is a little painful to watch, at least it was for me.

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Jim: thanks for the good review; I might get my husband to go see it w/ me.

Kathleen



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