Synopsis: A renowned linguist, Professor Alice, begins to forget something, terrifies her and is eventually diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The life of this typical middle-class woman changed instantly. She tried to fight the disease in her own way - using mobile phone, computer video, using everything that can help her memory to exercise and remind herself. But everything was useless, the speed of forgetting was unstoppable, swallowing her hope, and she was desperate, just such a wise, dignified and respected middle-aged middle-aged woman disappeared alive, and finally, unconsciously, quietly and cautiously sat quietly with her daughter. At home, listening to the lines of my daughter's monologue.
The film ended with Aunt Moore, with a helpless and overwhelmed expression, politely answering the little daughter's question: "love, it`s love", and the title of the film was played on the entire screen - the music of "still alice" sounded, At that moment I remembered a poem about a good night in another movie "Interstellar": do not go into that good night gently, old age should burn and roar at the end of the day; rage, rage against the disappearance of light. Though wise men die knowing that darkness makes sense, because their words do not burst into lightning, they do not go gentle into that good night.
It's a family sketch movie, it's not as grandiose as Interstellar, but it seems to me that the themes they discuss are largely the same, time, love, memory, forgetting, passing away, family and Affectionate. It's just that "Still Alice" uses the illness of someone in a certain family to show a good night that is about to disappear in the future. The film has some flaws, but Moore's tense and restrained performance has earned her a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Best Actress (there's also a film called "The Star Chart," which she did well). It seems to me that Moore's status is not on the same channel as the rest of the cast. To use an inappropriate analogy, this is like Kobe and other Lakers players at the end of this year's career. Although they play on the same floor, they are not playing an ideological basketball. Although Kobe has been in frequent situations, he still creates a total score surpassing. Jordan's feat.
Aunt Moore plays the wise but not too old old man. Although he "angrily reprimanded" the disappearance of his memory and behavior, he even wanted to use the pre-recorded video on the computer to guide the seriously ill self to commit suicide in the future. When her sleeping pills were scattered, she might no longer remember what to do, and could only quietly enjoy the coming of darkness in the evening. As her memory dissipated, she had a laborious communication with her relative who was about to become a stranger. No matter what, she would walk into the quiet good night alone, sit there quietly, not knowing what she was talking about, what she was doing, and what she wanted to say. What, what do you want to do. This feeling and pain may be more terrifying than the black hole of the universe. This is really like the 36-year-old Kobe Bryant on the court now, who is full of injuries. He is strong, stubborn and unwilling to accept his old age. He has to play all the time, to play 38 minutes, to rest, and finally he can't play for the season reimbursement. Just like Moore, he was lost on the court, helplessly accepted the baptism of injuries and years, and could not be recovered.
I think the movie uses three scenes to reflect the three stages of Moore's disease development.
One was public speaking. The plot set the speech to drop, but did not change the order of the manuscripts, which caused Moore to be embarrassed by not being able to confirm the sequence of the unread manuscript paragraphs. He used a self-deprecating stalk of "I have forgotten the ugly state just now" to cover it up. In the past, I thought that the plot was set to make Moore make a fool of himself in public and show a tenacious inspirational plot. In the end, the director retained the dignity of this middle-class professor and let her finish her speech smoothly. This is the stage where there is still hope and struggle in the early and middle stages of the disease.
The second is suicide by taking medicine, which shocked me. Moore thought that if his condition worsened to the point where he committed suicide by following the video without knowing what to do, it would be time to commit suicide, so that he could die with dignity. But the director once again arranged for a part-time worker to appear to make the sleeping pills scattered, and the idea of suicide was self-defeating. This is the desperate desire to die with dignity in the middle and late stages of the disease.
The third is to buy yogurt with her husband in the end. She is cautiously attached to her husband's side, like an unconscious baby who needs parental protection. She used to be a famous professor at Columbia University, but those are no longer important in her mind. She just wanted to devour the bowl of yogurt that her husband helped her choose, which she once liked. This is the terminal stage of her illness and she is completely devoured by the disease.
The film constantly flashes the picture of a mother and daughter at the beach, which is Moore's last understanding of love. She sat there quietly, like Kobe helplessly walking off the back of the court. When the good night came, they all walked in involuntarily.
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