Category: Relapse

When a scene gets it right, when it manages to articulate all the anguish and anxiety and reckoning of a genuinely alcoholic bottom, it can have a profound effect on viewers. Seeing their potential fate on TV can help alcoholics While everyone’s alcoholic bottom is different, there’s no denying that their agony and despair is…

In the opening scenes of 6 Balloons we see the optimistic preparations for a suburban birthday party getting underway. Cool-boxes are filled with beer, green and purple pastel balloons are ferried from the supermarket and a woman hangs bunting on a stool that we can see is teetering precariously beneath her. It's an obvious but…