Mentioning Alzheimer's disease, that is, Alzheimer's disease, I believe that most people, like Xiaobian, will only think that it is a geriatric disease, and there is nothing special about it, until after watching this "Still Alice", Xiaobian can't help but sigh his superficial ignorance.
Still Alice is a feature film released in September 2014 by French Films and GaoXian Film Co., Ltd. Directed by Richard Glazer, written by Walsh Westmoreland and starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin.
The film tells the story of fifty-year-old Alice Howland (played by Julianne Moore) who is a successful woman with a successful career and a happy family. One day the doctor diagnosed her with early Alzheimer's disease, a diagnosis that completely changed her life, her memory could not keep up with the pace of oblivion, she gradually lost her mind, but also lost the connection to the outside world. However, in the company of her family's strong love, she bravely lives for every day and for the present. She can experience the beauty and love of life. She was still Alice Howlan, and always had been.
The natural flow of the film makes people have to admire the director's skill, simple and unpretentious documentary technique, real and natural. The jump of time is natural, especially the transition method, often using the transition method of eye gaze or the translation of the lens. When you think it's a shot of up and down, but the truth is a story of a different time period. The heroine Aunt Moore uses superb performance skills to give alice, the protagonist of "Still Alice", a very real and three-dimensional character model, and the Oscar for Best Actress is well deserved!
From Moore, we can feel alice's strength before the onset of the disease, and she never stops, wanting to get everything at once.
From Moore, we can also feel alice's fear before the diagnosis of the disease, she woke her husband in the middle of the night to cry to him: I feel like my whole life is away from me.
When the disease is diagnosed, we feel Alice's strength from Moore, facing forgetting, providing all the words and information that may recall memory on the blackboard, mobile phone, and video.
In the process of aggravating the disease, Moore uses his eyes, expressions, and posture to show Alice who is dazed, aphasiad, and confused.
Of course, there is also the occasional despair, recording videos when he is awake, hoping to commit suicide according to the drugs convinced by the video when he is seriously ill. Of course, it may also be to maintain her last dignity, for her once heroic and confident, when she does not remember anything, can only become a burden to her family, it is better to leave quietly.
Before watching this movie, I never thought that The impact of Alzheimer's disease on people is so great, and most people, I think that there is nothing wrong with Alzheimer's disease, young people will be more or less forgetful, let alone middle-aged and elderly.
And Aunt Moore uses superb acting skills to vividly show us a middle-aged woman who is at the peak of her life and is troubled by Alzheimer's disease, and what is deprived of the disease is not faith, not life, but the courage to live, facing the self that you have never seen lost in the night.
Alzheimer's disease befell a woman at the peak of her life, how can she not be lost, and like the self-reliant Alice, she once said that she would rather have cancer than Alzheimer's disease.
The charm of language is her life's work, but when the disease haunts her, she can only live like a child, and the words she wants to say, the memories of the past, can only be stored in the memories of those who have had the same experience.
Such pain, such heartache, I think non-parties can not appreciate the taste.
Alice in the film is amnesiac, why aren't we in the real world amnesia?
The roads traveled, the things experienced, the people I saw, the landscapes I saw, the setbacks I encountered, and the gains I gained as I grew older, my memories gradually blurred, and I could only remember some fragments, and many details could not be recalled.
In fact, we are also living a life of amnesia, accidentally forgotten things, sealed names, or deliberately forgotten pain, covered up past.
It's just that Alice walks faster, we go slower, there are many things we want to have in life, but at the end of life, fate will eventually teach us to calmly let go and forget one by one.