“Because of the alcohol! It causes and at the same time a solution to all the problems of life.“offered the patriarch of the Simpsons in the episode ‘Homer against the eighteenth amendment’ of the Matt Groening series, and they may have already read this phrase associated with ‘Another Round’ (Druk, 2020) in some text about comedy that brings together to Mads Mikkelsen and Thomas Vinterberg, but the truth is that there is no philosophy that better summarizes the idea of the film in a few words, it is a toast with and for alcohol, for good and bad.
‘Another round’ starts from an a priori premise very typical of a European comedy, one of those that fill the billboards in cinemas in their original version: four professors who decide to start a peculiar sociological experiment based on the theory of the Norwegian psychiatrist and writer Finn Skårderud, who says that humans are born with a deficit of 0.05% alcohol in the blood, and it is when we make up for that difference when we become the best version of ourselves. So they decide to keep that alcohol level at the same level throughout the day to try to show that this way they can improve in all aspects of their lives.
