The text explores the alcohol-effect (G. Deleuze) in the movie "Taxy blues" (1990) by Pavel Lungin. Alcohol allows to the main movie character, a jazz musician Lesha, to escape from the world (into apostasy), but on the other hand, the alcohol-effect helps his reconciliation with the Self, as it was described in F. Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music. By playing jazz on his saxophone, the Dionysian Lesha embodies the original sorrow and its echo, as stated Nietzsche. Sobriety becomes almost a negative category in Lungin's movie. It can be compared to the ideas of A. Zinoviev, who saw the drunkenness as a path that leads to spirituality.