It's hard to give up on someone you love. Even if you should. Only the individual knows when they have to walk away. It doesn't always make sense.
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Yes, it's really dark, like Ace in the Hole 😱

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Ok. Eyes averted. Sound off. Is the 🦇 scene over? 6 weeks ago I woke up to a bat flying around in my bedroom. It was horrifying, & I ended up needing to get rabies shots because that’s the protocol now if you wake up to a bat in the room w you. 😱 #TheLostWeekend #TheNoirCollective

That is interesting. I did think the "nurse" sounded anachronistic.

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It is almost unbearable to watch this movie it is so painful

As per critic William Ahearn: “There would be many alcohol and substance abuse films in the coming decades – The Man With the Golden Arm and A Hatful of Rain, among others – yet it wouldn’t be until Panic in Needle Park that any film would surpass the realism of #TheLostWeekend.” #TheNoirCollective

And our leading men for this edition of #TheNoirCollective are Ray Milland, Phillip Terry, Howard da Silva and Frank Faylen
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The leading ladies for this week’s #TheNoirCollective are Jane Wyman and Doris Dowling (also pictured: Ray Milland)
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Posters for “The Lost Weekend” AKA “The Poison” AKA “Days Without a Trace” (1945) from The USA, Sweden, The Czech Republic and Australia
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@scenarist.bsky.social asked me last week, “Can we also say this film started or expanded the addiction struggle film? Not obsession, but actual addiction?” Absolutely. As one example, I don’t see how Louis Malle’s The Fire Within (1963) exists without #TheLostWeekend. #TheNoirCollective

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This film is so well done and realistic it is painful for me to watch. The way he he has filmed it as a horror film really gets across the horror of addiction. I’ve watched someone go through withdrawals and it is horrible and heartbreaking

WOOO HOOOO
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I can’t help but think that a creepy guy saying he’s a nurse (not an orderly) at a time when that meant a woman is supposed to add to the ickiness of the situation. Some kind of covert & negative gay representation? A trope of “the sadistic pervert”? Hmmm. #TheNoirCollective #TheLostWeekend

Impressive button size on Helen's coat.

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“I’m gonna walk out of here with that quart of rye, one way or another.”

One day earlier, Don couldn’t bear people thinking he was a thief. Now he’s abandoned all pretense of a moral code. You fully believe he’s prepared to kill for that next drink. #TheNoirCollective #TheLostWeekend

You can tell this was filmed in 1945. No, not the milkman but the sight of an El-train in Manhattan.
BTW: That facility has really poor security.
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