WATCH – MEDIA: FILM REVIEW –
Dec. 4, 2020 – But today is different. As I’m writing these words, the warming sensation of the two shots of whiskey I pounded not 10 minutes ago is working its way through my body while a third shot sits comfortably by my side. Call it an act of creative boredom. Call it an excuse to day drink in the middle of a weekday. Call it what you will. But, for me, it makes sense. I do this today in homage to the movie I’m reviewing, Another Round from director Thomas Vinterberg. The Swedish/Dutch production is an examination of the cultural relationship to alcohol and its effects on the individual and, yes, features just…f#%kin…oceans of alcohol. It is, I can say with no hint of inebriated exaggeration, one of 2020’s best films.
Mads Mikle…Mads Mikellso…Mads Mikkelsen stars as Martin, an aging high school teacher who is growing increasingly bored of his life and increasingly distant from his wife, Anika (Maria Bonnevie).A fortuitous birthday dinner for his friend and colleague Nikolaj (Magnus Millang) sends Martin down a path of self-discovery from which he may not recover. In conversation, Martin and his friends discuss the work of a psychologist who opines that humans are born with a deficit of .05% alcohol in their blood, and that maintaining that BAC level can lead to optimum social and professional performance. Eager to break out of their mundane lives, Martin and his friends put that test to the hypothesis.
