Romero himself defined the creatures as average-Joe "blue-collar monsters," who lumbered stiffly out of their graves to indiscriminately attack - a metaphor for a lifeless and dehumanized society...not shovel!Jim: You""ll shovel and like it, dearie!Bull (after giving Slim a bigger shovel): Now, you big stiff - SHOVEL!Jim has his first look at a young French peasant girl named Melisande (Renee Adoree), the daughter of a farmer who doesn""t speak English - she will eventually become the object of his affection.Surrounded by the two cops, he is grilled and forced to repeat that Miles was tailing Thursby for an unnamed client.It also spawned further attempts to chronicle the social problem and theme of alcoholism, including this list of representative films:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)A Star is Born (1954)(also 1937, 1976)Country Girl (1954)I""ll Cry Tomorrow (1955)Days of Wine and Roses (1962)Who""s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)Only When I Laugh (1981)The Verdict (1982)Under the Volcano (1984)Barfly (1987)Ironweed (1987)Clean and Sober (1988)When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)Leaving Las Vegas (1995)Affliction (1997)28 Days (2000)Plot SynopsisThursday Afternoon:After the credits,The Lost Weekendopens with a panning, left-to-right cityscape view of New York City.