FREE ON YOUTUBE Bukowski: Born Into This

FREE ON YOUTUBE  Every boy of my generation read Bukowski. Probably we all had the wrong impression. Didn't we? At 24, Bukowski practiced sex for the first time. With a prostitute who weighed about 150 KG. As he tells this story, he blushes. Like a teenager. Probably every boy of my generation would have expected a tough guy, not an insecure little boy. John Dullaghan's "Bukowski: Born Into This" approaches the poet through readings and interviews. Friends like Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Bono and Bukowski's publisher are interviewed. (Bukowski knew quite a few Hollywood stars for hating Hollywood). The film also remembers Linda Lee Bukowski, the woman he loved and cursed. One of those relationships in which the woman cares for the man, even feeds him. There is such a thing. One of our customers from the bar, constantly drunk and on top of it, is also supported by such a nurse. Bukowski always took the view that it was not easy to be an alcoholic. He drank persistently and consistently and smoked small cigarettes from Pakistan. Linda Lee Bukowski must have been about as patient as our chief Druffi's girlfriend. She understood Bukowski, who asked only one thing: understanding. This is how it works: When Bukowski attacks angrily, you have to understand him as the injured victim. Imagine that in real life: An aggressive drunkard whom we must regret. Right at the beginning, he threatens a spectator during his reading to climb down into the audience. He asks for a pot to puke inside. Bukowski loved to drink red wine every day. Then he wrote. Everyone can understand his poems. Once he wrote a script. The novel "Hollywood" is about how Bukowski sketched "Barfly". He neither liked the film nor the leading actor Mickey Rourke. At least Rourke still looked attractive at that time. Different than the original. And certainly the real Bukowski never met women like Faye Dunaway. Different from his alter ego in the movie. But sometime during the late 60s Bukowski was famous and could have sex with groupies. That came too late for him. Of course, you can be skeptical when every boy of a whole generation reads the poems of a boo-boo poet. Is all this real or just a pose? Can you separate the literary Chinaski from the real Bukowski? The best thing is to read it again. What he wrote is a blast! Immediately and sincerely. When we read it, we feel that the wounds he is talking about are really his own.