In 2014, a small-budget film that had only been filmed for 23 days was released.
As a result, at the next major film awards, the heroine won almost all the post-film awards with her excellent acting skills.
The movie is: Still Alice
Cambridge, USA.
Alice is a proper winner in life: a perfect family, a successful career, a good income, a delicate appearance... Every woman wants to be her...
Everyone felt that Alice would enjoy the gaze and aura for the rest of her life.
Unexpectedly, fate made a big joke with this confident and elegant woman...
One day, during her daily routine morning run, Alice inexplicably got lost near her home...
Gradually, more questions emerged:
As a linguist, she couldn't remember the simplest words...
Things often misplaced, for example, putting shampoo in the fridge...
Classes are often stuck, lessons will be forgotten, where they will be forgotten, and students' names will be forgotten...
The family also found Alice's abnormality: can't find the phone, read the same page repeatedly, ask a question repeated several times, can't live without a memo, can't even remember the name of her daughter...
The doctor gave the diagnosis: Alice suffered from "early-onset Alzheimer's disease", which is what we commonly call: Alzheimer's disease.
Alice has only celebrated her 50th birthday, which is the most triumphant stage of her career.
Hearing this result, she couldn't believe it and collapsed and said: I'd rather have cancer and die with at least dignity.
Talent, language and expression make Alice.
However, everyone can only watch Alzheimer's disease, little by little cannibalize Alice's memory, little by little deprived of her wisdom, self-confidence, and the value of life...
The otherwise unbreakable family relationship will also be tested...
This "Still Alice", adapted from the live-action biography "I Miss Myself", scored 7.9 points on Douban nearly 50,000 people, and the IMDb score was 7.5.
Some netizens commented: Sad stories, shocking performances, I already know the plot may not dare to watch, but after watching it, I have more courage in life.
The film was made possible by the heroine: Julianne Moore.
Truth be told, Alzheimer's patients are not easy to act. Act less, can't see; act more, and exaggerate...
It has no pain, it is not fierce, it is more like a silent parasitic plant, absorbing your energy and memory, and strangling you little by little...
This powerless sadness, and the sense of horror that slowly eats away, is colder than snow, sharper than a knife... Without pure acting skills, it is difficult to grasp the nuances.
However, Julianne Moore uses delicate and reasonable performances and quiet emotional control to interpret how an elite woman, with the erosion of the disease, the ability is deteriorating, the self-confidence slowly disintegrates, and the vitality gradually passes...
She blends the story into every action, look, expression, word speed... At different stages of her illness, her performances can also be differentiated.
When Alice first got lost, she interpreted it like this:
First of all, he took a big breath, tried to suppress his panic, repeatedly confirmed the buildings around him, and desperately thought... Then move forward cautiously and hesitantly...
Back at home, as if she had just experienced a thrilling disaster, she leaned against the door and took a long breath.
But in the next moment, when facing her husband, she immediately switched to a state of calmness, as if nothing had happened...
Later, the illness became more and more serious, and even at home, Alice had forgotten where the toilet was.
She held back her pee in a panic, going back and forth, and finally couldn't help but pee her pants...
Facing her husband, she cried like a helpless child...
We see: a face-loving, proud high-level intellectual, uncontrollable sadness, unwillingness...
The embarrassment of forgetting her daughter, the relief of facing illness, the powerlessness to try to take care of herself, the loneliness of being seriously ill, the despair of committing suicide... It can be said that Julianne Moore constructed a complex three-dimensional image of the patient...
It is worth mentioning that Julianne Moore's role image before and after the film is not the same.
In the early stage, she was confident and generous, exquisite and elegant. In the later stages, she was disheveled, gaunt, and her skin was covered with blood...
It is this contrasting image that allows the audience to feel the changes in Alice's character and enter the play faster...
Julianne Moore also won more than 10 post-film roles such as the Oscar and golden globe award for best actress with the superb performance of this film.
In the same year, she also won the Cannes Film Queen with her outstanding performance in "Star Map"...
She is also the first actress in history to win three major European film festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin) and the Academy Awards after the Grand Slam...
Some netizens commented: Julian Moore's Oscar-sealing trip is definitely the level of God blocking the killing of God and Buddha blocking the killing of Buddha.
More authoritative media commented: With years of cultivation, she has woven her acting skills into wrinkles and cultivated her strength into a unique sexiness.
"Still Alice" captures the truest appearance of Alzheimer's patients, calling people to pay attention to such patients and give them the last warmth.
Just like Alice in the film, with the company and encouragement of her family, she did not lose the hope of living, and still bravely and strongly greeted the new day.