Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966) If you want to see a movie where 4 people get drunk on bourbon and brandy and go on talking and talking in circles and riddles for 2 hours, this is it. On the other hand, their talk is not gibberish mutterings of drunks but all the outpourings of 2 frustrated middle class couples of their marriages which started with pomp and splendour but slowly degenerated to one pair who are constantly at each other's nerves and find pleasure in hurting each other real bad where it hurt most. In fact the whole film is a quarreling match on how the main character and his wife abuse each other with words whilst slowly unfolding their life tragedy. All this shouting and hurling earned this film 13 Academy Award nominations and won 5. George (Richard Burton), a history Associate Professor, staggers along in a drunken gait with his wife Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) to their home at 2am. Martha enters their home to complain about the dumpster of a house...
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