I'm drunk right now

I wish it were funny. The first time I saw this movie, I drank a pint watching it, then went to the bar and drank till it closed, then puked my guts out staggering home.
I struggled with my compulsive drinking for for over 20-yrs; I've been sober for 3, and still hear the siren call from the bottle.
This movie is melodramatic, stereotypical and dated, but it rings so true--it's scary. 1's too many, 100's not enough.
Good luck, buddy; I've been there.

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As one viewer put, Mr Wilder I am an avid movie goer and an alcoholic. After seeing your movie I will never see another movie again!

i am a drunkard,

In all the time since my first drink I have never regretted my actions while under the influence, even some of the more degrading and malevolent ones. If a man cannot act without circumscription & truly learn something about themselves, then the fault lies within them and not in the bottle.
By the same token, if a man acts without the restraints placed upon all of us by regular society and finds himself to be a monster, it is understandable that he will hide from himself and blame all but not his own nature.

For all the evils that are said to come from alcohol not one of them looks to human nature as the well they are all drawn from.

Men may see alcohol as the cause of all their worries, but they are merely blaming the looking-glass.

Me, I'm a drunk. Clear differences between being a drunk and being an alcoholic.

An alcoholic believes they are hunted by alcohol, they believe it makes them a victim. It makes them a way they don't want to be. They decide to stop, but they cant. They decide to change, but they cant. They decide that if they stop the flow of alcohol thier problems will go away. But these decisions will always fail because there is a weakness that they are refusing to acknowledge, they are instead focusing on one element of their problem - and hey I don't blame them. If I was in their situation I'd blame the thing that seemed to make things worse too. I've been in that position before. Alcohol makes you more you than you can normally deal with, but does that mean there's a problem with the alcohol or you?

A Drunk, is someone who has faced this situation and triumphed. Hell, they may not have even had to face it in the first place because that’s just the type of person they are, but for the rest of us who have; we looked at ourselves in the lowest place and way we could be, we looked at our lives and what we'd done, we looked at our loved ones and what we'd done to them, we looked to our future to see where we were going and we accepted that it was only us that had been responsible, there was something there that needed changing, needed fixing, and we fixed it. This is the story of how an alcoholic becomes a regular person. A regular person can drink and get drunk as often as they want. Hence, the happy person who drinks and enjoys the virtues of alcohol, having triumphed over himself is a "Drunk".

If you define your problems by your drink, then you are lost, a recovered alcoholic is still an alcoholic, its not until they realise what their true problem is and fix it that they can stop fearing alcohol and be their own person. What they decide to do from there is totally up to them.

There are some people that can follow the path of the "recovered alcoholic" and become regular people. Their will is so strong that they can work through all the garbage, if they choose to signify this by cutting out booze altogether then so be it. But a drunk chooses not to cut anything out of his life - we'll keep our booze thankyou, and smile while we drink it too (cause we're happy)

All in all, I'm just tired of people running away from their own problems and pointing the finger at the innocents. Pointing the finger at booze makes about as much sense at pointing at a block of cheese and saying "I did all those things while I was feeling bloated - that’s the devils cheese".

Now, I'm going to go have a drink. All this talk is making me thirsty - Good day to you all.