Illness will bring pain, but love will give strength

Fay 2022-04-19 09:01:51

It's been a long time since I wrote a full-length movie review, but during the screening of "Still Alice", I had the urge to pick up a pen more than once.

"Still Alice" tells a story about love. Julianne Moore gave a sincere, delicate and extremely moving great performance in the film. With Julianne's expressive performance, with the unfolding of the plot, the audience's heart The tide of emotional resonance came one after another. We get to see Julianne's heartbreaking and engrossing performance throughout the film's many moments.


In a sense, this film can be called the American version of "Women Fifty". Like other fifty-year-old women, Alice has her own joys and troubles; the difference is that Alice is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease Autism, a disease in which memory is progressively degraded or even lost.

The illness had a severe impact on Alice and her family. As a top linguistics professor, a loving wife, and a dedicated mother, Alice could hardly accept the fact at first. On another sleepless night, Alice woke her husband and fell into his arms, crying like a child.

"I wish I had cancer," I could hear a heartbreak as Alice said it calmly to her husband. How deep is her pain? I can't feel it, I can only try to understand.

When those happy or sad memories disappear in your mind bit by bit, as if they were stolen and never found again, you will understand that having memories is really a blessing thing.

Butterfly has only one month's life, Alice was very sad about this, but her mother once told her that the butterfly's life is short but beautiful, which can bring some comfort to Alice who is sick. The butterfly is not only the pendant shape of a necklace her mother gave her, but also the name of a folder on her computer desktop. In that folder, there were various secrets that Alice had reserved for herself when she was awake.

As Alice mentioned in her speech, she struggles with fading memories every day with Alzheimer's disease, a process she describes as an art, an art of mastering loss.


"Still Alice" shows the great pain caused by the disease to Alice, and also shows the bravery, fearlessness and strength of people in the face of illness, and all this comes from love. This is the reason why Alice in the film can move people's hearts and bring comfort to people.

"I was told that I used to be a good teacher and a good mother." When I heard Alice say this, like her husband, I could only silently let the tears fill my eyes.

Thank you, Alice; thank you, Still Alice. Because of love, you are still the Alice we are familiar with and like.


PS: With this excellent performance, Julianne Moore has a great chance of impacting this year's Oscar winner. Twilight's Stewart's acting is also more mature in this film, which is one of the surprises.

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Extended Reading
  • Lesley 2021-12-01 08:01:26

    Where is the acting? Isn't this what Aunt Moore came here at her fingertips! Since there are all actresses who act casually, Annette Bening hurried out as early as possible and worked hard. Maybe some Oscar young year will also be a queen.... In fact, what Aunt Moore lacks is an absolute masterpiece. When the masterpiece came out, a large part was shaken to death, but Aunt Moore regretted that there was no...

  • Freddy 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    Aunt Moore's performance is enough to support a slightly bland plot, or in other words, such a bland plot highlights her acting skills. I really liked that speech and the last words of KS. Alice watching the video she recorded reminded me of someone who once said that those articles on how to treat procrastination will never cure procrastination. AB is not used to playing a completely good person, and what is even more unaccustomed is that he really looks like a good person [laugh cry

Still Alice quotes

  • Lydia Howland: You can't use your situation to just get me to do everything you want me to do.

    Dr. Alice Howland: Why can't I?

    Lydia Howland: Because that's not fair.

    Dr. Alice Howland: I don't have to be fair. I'm your mother.

  • [last lines]

    Lydia Howland: [reading to her mother, but mostly from memory] "Night flight to San Francisco chase the moon across America. God, it's been years since I was on a plane. When we hit 35,000 feet, we'll have reached the tropopause, the great elt of calm air. As close to the ozone as I'll get, I - I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was... frightening."

    Lydia Howland: "But I saw something only I could see because of my astonishing ability to see such things. Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who's perished from famine, from war, from the plague... And they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling, spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles and formed a web, a great net of souls. And the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules of the stuff of ozone and the outer rim absorbed them, and was repaired. Because nothing is lost forever. In this world, there a kind of painful progress. A longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that's so."

    Lydia Howland: [moving over alongside her mother] Hey. Did you like that. What I jest read, did you like it?

    Dr. Alice Howland: [barely grunting]

    Lydia Howland: And what... What was it about?

    Dr. Alice Howland: Love. Yeah, love.

    Lydia Howland: Yeah, it was about love.