Still Alice was a horror movie.
That's not what you say about the film which won Julianne Moore the best actress Oscar, but it was very horrific.
Moore stars as the eponymous Alice, a young Columbia professor who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She's in her early fifties, but she inherited the disease from one of her parents. The film follows her descent into the horrors of this disease. It was especially tough for her character, because she was an intellect.
It was also tough on her, because she could pass it along to her 3 children, two of whom took a test to discover if they had inherited it. The youngest daughter didn't, and she kept leading a care free life coming back to help her degenerating mother.
I had a friend who went crazy. He became erratic and delusional. When you looked into his eyes, you did not see him there. That is frightening like the Alzheimer's in this movie. The person you know is gone but is still physically there. They are living ghosts.
3 of 5 stars.
That's not what you say about the film which won Julianne Moore the best actress Oscar, but it was very horrific.
Moore stars as the eponymous Alice, a young Columbia professor who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She's in her early fifties, but she inherited the disease from one of her parents. The film follows her descent into the horrors of this disease. It was especially tough for her character, because she was an intellect.
It was also tough on her, because she could pass it along to her 3 children, two of whom took a test to discover if they had inherited it. The youngest daughter didn't, and she kept leading a care free life coming back to help her degenerating mother.
I had a friend who went crazy. He became erratic and delusional. When you looked into his eyes, you did not see him there. That is frightening like the Alzheimer's in this movie. The person you know is gone but is still physically there. They are living ghosts.
3 of 5 stars.
anyway this disease is constantly on my mind. None of my grandparents/parents have had it. But I know many people whose parents have. The fact that she is so young in the movie (only a decade older than me is scary.)
This morning for the second time in a row, I realized that I forgot to close the gate to our yard. It's something I do everyday but lately I've been forgetting. And I don't remember forgetting. I start imagining some nefarious person coming in my yard and opening the gate just to mess with me on those mornings. But it's for only a few seconds and then I have to accept that I just forgot.
I didn't realize that my kid was paying attention to me while all this played out in my head this morning. He reassured me (with his young wise self) that it was okay that I forgot and that I don't need to be sad about it. That it just happens. People forget.
But when you forget things that you don't think you should, it's really scary.
BTW, all stories are love stories... :)