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June 11, 2018 – Which is the truest portrait of addiction on screen? There is Nick Cage in Leaving Las Vegas dying in the arms of a prostitute – but I didn’t believe in the prostitute. There is Richard E Grant in Withnail and I, but I didn’t believe in the jokes. Addiction can look comical – it’s prat-falling – but it isn’t really funny watching a soul collapse. It would have been a more truthful film if Withnail had killed himself. Then there is Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? but I didn’t believe in the love affair. At least, not that love affair. I am a recovering addict – 16 years clean and sometimes happy, sometimes not – and although I didn’t want to drink after…
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