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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 424239" data-attributes="member: 8">It's interesting that Bigger Than Life comes with a warning and DOWAD offers a solution.Jack Lemmon's character is an alcoholic, that's his problem. but Lee Remick says that she doesn't want to stop drinking because a sober life looks too ugly.She had mentioned something similar in an allegorical way about the water looking dirty up close and prettier in the distance, and that happened before she became addicted to alcohol.It suggests that she was more deeply troubled than her husband and perhaps inherently vulnerable to addictions, alcohol or something else.That's also why the ending makes perfect sense to me.</blockquote>