When A Man Loves A Woman

            The movie watched this week was “When a Man Loves a Woman”. Before watching this movie, I only know the name by the song. The movie was a 1994 movie with a story of an alcoholic wife and his husband.

            The first half part of the movie revolves around the life of an alcoholic wife. It shows that how addiction to alcohol can change a person’s personality. The wife, Alice was portrayed as a person that was lighthearted and loving but also very reckless. For instance, on their anniversary, Alice was shown really cheerful and loves to have fun. But when they were back in their home, she was annoyed by neighbor’s alarming car and then threw eggs to the car. She was also shown that she slapped her daughter when she was drunk.

            The story began to shift the main idea on how people was affected by alcoholism to how people deal with changes when Alice and her husband decided that rehab is the solution to Alice’s alcoholic problem. Alice became sober and strong, unlike previously that she often needed her husband, which was hard for her husband, Michael, who was dealing with the changes of his wife. Michael was portrayed as a man that loves his wife deeply. For example, when Alice was throwing eggs to their neighbor’s car, he decided to accompany his wife in action. During her wife’s alcoholic state, he was portrayed as the main “strength” of the family. When his wife kicked the habit of drinking, he still treated her like previously, which sort of tip off the argument between them as Michael do not know how to deal with his wife’s new state. He still remained the mind state of how he could help to “fix” her. Whenever they had argument, he will say things like: “Something I can do?” or “What'd I do now?”

            At the end, after they separated for a while, only they know how to deal with the changes in their lives, which shown sometimes people need personal space to sort things out. We can see that sometimes people are hard to deal with changes, but also inspiring as we can see how people take effort to deal with it.