Alice in "Still Alice" has a successful career and a harmonious family, but suffers from early Alzheimer's disease due to her father's inheritance. She is a linguist and she has to accept the upcoming memory disorder and language disorder… Originally with a good memory, she suddenly forgot her words during the speech and would get lost. She started to set up questions on her mobile phone for herself to answer, and forgot the practice of bread pudding, which was her daughter's favorite food. In the later period, she forgot more and more things. What has already been asked will be asked over and over again.
When he first told her husband, he reassured her that it would be alright, she interrupted him roughly, and she said loudly that she knew how she felt, and she couldn't help crying as she spoke. Even through the screen, I can feel her inner despair. Because of her great achievements, she can't accept her appearance of dementia, not to mention, she is really young.
After the diagnosis, her husband was responsible for taking care of her. Even if he was very careful, patient, and thoughtful, even if she tried hard to remember some things, the speed of her degeneration was still beyond their expectation. In the past, her clothes were well-dressed and her makeup was exquisite, her skin condition was comparable to that of a little girl, and her hair was well-groomed. After that, she seemed to be aging very quickly, with fine lines and age spots on her face, her hair in a messy state, and her eyesight. Slowly become sluggish. She hated herself in the mirror, so she put toothpaste on the mirror like a child.
When she was less ill, she gave a speech as a linguist who is also an Alzheimer's patient, saying that although the disease had made them hilarious and inept, they were not. You can still choose to live in the moment as much as you can. This should be the best attitude we can think of: don't blame yourself for your own performance, don't be ashamed of your performance, and have something you love and put your energy into even if it doesn't exist in our memory later.
Later, she saw the video she recorded for herself when she was diagnosed. Alice in the video told her to find the bottle of medicine in the drawer, drink it, and then go to sleep. Her memory was so bad that she ran around watching the video and talking. In the process of how to do it, she finally found the medicine, but when she was about to eat it, she was interrupted by the nanny, and the medicine was scattered all over the ground. It was also fortunate that her memory was so poor that she saved herself from her own hands. The original intention of recording this video was to leave this world decently and not burden her family, but she did not expect that she would not be able to complete this "mission" in the later period.
Her husband couldn't take care of her because of his work, and in the end, it was her younger daughter who didn't want to go to college and was obsessed with drama performances to take care of her. Before she got sick, she persuaded her to pursue further studies, and the two parted ways. After she got sick, she said she wanted to see her graduate from college. The least "obedient" is probably because her actions are not approved by her parents, and drama acting is not a real career in her mother's eyes. She, who is the most incompatible with this family, shoulders the heavy responsibility of taking care of her. In the last scene of the film, she does not rely on other things, but tells her stories to make her feel loved.
In the face of illness, many words seem pale and powerless. Some illnesses can be saved by money, while others cannot. You can't choose what kind of pain you will suffer, but you can choose your attitude.
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