BARFLY (1987)

Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke), a nihilistic drunk and fighter, floats around in bars and is constantly drunk. When he is not drinking he writes poems on napkins in his cockroach infested apartment for which he does not have rent and eats other people's food.  On a regular evening he meets a woman, Wanda Wilcox (Faye Dunaway), in who he falls in love with.  She wonders if he hates people and he answers, "No, but I seem to feel better when they are not around."  This is the slogan that manifests the story, which is to drink and forget the miserable existence in which they live.  Barfly is an interesting film that discusses and argues that there is nothing real in life if you choose it to be that way. At the end, the film is presented with an interesting point of view.

DIRECTED BY

Barbet Schroeder

COUNTRY

USA
REVIEWED
11/9/2002
GRADE


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