We are meant to thirst

Bill W.

Crit

This documentary about the cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, who became an unwilling messiah, is informative if pedestrian, marred by an enormous reliance on reenactment, even though the filmmakers had a wealth of audiotapes and archival film at their disposal. It's fairly strictly personal; don't go looking for any insights into why the organization itself works. Most surprising thing I learned: that Bill experimented, with some success, apparently, with LSD--when it was an experimental "miracle drug," before it became an instrument of what the filmmakers term "abuse"--as a way to get enlightenment about the needs of the alcoholic.