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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Still Alice quotes

  • Dr. Alice Howland: [John has discovered Alice's missing phone in the kitchen freezer] ... Oh no! I was looking for that last night!

    Dr. John Howland: [whispers to Anna] That was a month ago.

  • Dr. John Howland: Why don't you wear a fanny pack, is it really THAT inhibiting?

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