As the title already suggests, this film is about an alcoholic. A young man from Seoul is convinced by his friends to go with them to a small town, where on of his friends knows someone who owns a guesthouse. When the protagonist arrives , his friends let him down. His friend then directs him to a local guesthouse, promising to show up within a couple of days. Because all kinds of strange circumstances the protagonist still finds himself alone in the guesthouse a couple of days later. He meets a girl who exploits his kindness, and is then confronted by her boyfriend, which turns out to not be her boyfriend after all. The protagonist gets stuck in the little mountainvillage and is unable to get out of there.
All possible reasons for why someone drinks are in this film. A broken heart, social pressure, warming up in a cold climate or to be able to talk to a girl you like. In some scenes the protagonist of the film doesn't even have a choice but to drink or he will lose favour with people.
One of the strong points about Daytime Drinking are the recognisable types of characters. There's an unfriendly guesthouse owner, an unattractive girl who likes poetry, her alcoholic brother who likes mobile ringtones and does a strange dance when he is drunk, and the main character's friend who always lets him down. They all use the naive protagonist for their own purposes. This makes for some hilarious scenes about which I could go more into detail, but the best advice would be to just see it for yourself.
***1/2 out of 5
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