At first, when I first saw the title of “When A Man Loves A
Woman”, I thought it would be another typical romance film. However, it has
changed my view when the movie showing after the story after marriage of both
characters, Alice and Michael. The movie
portrays the wife who is an alcoholic, and how they deal with the problems.
Alice and Michael fall in love with each other at the first
sight when they have met each other in the restaurant. The movie changed the
timeline to the life of after marriage of them later on. Michael is an airline
pilot and Alice is a school counselor, they have two lovely daughters and they
live happily together. Owing to the pilot schedule, Alice has to spend most of
the time at home and she feels very lonely. Her addiction to alcohol never
stops that she needs to drink every day once she gets up and even driving. In
the movie, it can be seen that Alice was experiencing depression when she
shouted and yelled at her helper, Amy. She drank the Vodka with aspirin and
when her elder daughter, Jess talked to her, she slapped her right in her face.
Jess was afraid and shocked of her mother’s behavior. Then she smashed herself
on the shower door and passed out right away.
Michael, on the other hand, is a responsible and caring
husband and father. Even he knew his flying schedules may affect the time he
could spend with his family, he still managed to have gateways with Alice.
During the recovery of Alice, he showed his love to her. He played the big role
in the family, when Alice trying to take over her role in taking care of the
daughters, he feel threatened because he has used to be the role of a
caretaker.
Alice has went through the rehabilitation of alcoholism. The
recovery process is hard, that she has developed another attitude to compensate
for the lack of alcohol. However in the end of the movie, she finally gets rid
of the alcohol’s addiction.
I personally think that the movie portray well how an
alcoholic lives and how an alcoholic deals with it and recovers from it.
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