heroic drunk

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2012)

I wasn't going to write anything about this film, until I saw a blog entry linked to Roger Ebert's Sun Times site. That reviewer posited that Whip, wouldn't have done what he did to save the passengers unless he was uninhibited â€“ i.e. â€“ drunk. I think that was accurate and felt so viscerally when I watched the film. This was a film about the relativity of morality. Whip saved those people and Whip is a drunk. What do YOU make of that. In real life ALL of us would rather have an effective drunk at our side, rather than a failed angel. Whip's transformation at the end was about his personal survival going forward, not about the rightness or wrongness of his past behavior. That drunk was a hero.