I miss myself

Dayne 2021-12-01 08:01:26

"My mother is over 80 years old, and she often can't take care of many things by herself. I think that when a person is old, the most painful thing is to live without dignity."
———— Xu Anhua

has told others many times, the one I remember most is Xu Anhua The one sentence I have said is this one, I can't forget it.

In terms of shooting techniques and style, this is not a good movie. But there will still be tears in several places. I think this is the power of the story itself. It is the result of an individual who is in the most helpless state in his life and puts another person in the same position.

Literary works are more extreme than reality. It pushes the context of the story to an even worse situation: "If a linguistics professor suffers from Aztheimer's disease in the season when his career and family are at his best, he will lose what he is most proud of. What will happen if you lose your ability to take care of yourself and lose your dignity?"

Choose euthanasia or suicide? When the dignity has not been completely lost, make a complete break?

The movie slapped you with a big slap: At this time, you have lost even the ability to commit suicide.

This is a very personal story, you can reflect on yourself at any time, because this situation may happen to everyone.

When you forget you, are you still you?

The movie leaves a warm tail. Alice, who has completely lost her memory and self-care ability, can recognize "love" after listening to the story her daughter has read to her. This is a detail that contradicts the facts.

Also facing "Aztheimer's disease", Haneke gave an opposite treatment in "Love", where the old man personally ended his wife's life.

This is where this story is relatively clichéd and particularly helpless. When she is no longer her, who is this love given to?

I especially like a sentence in the original book: I miss myself.

A lifetime, a lifetime, meaningful, is still the word "I".

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Extended Reading
  • 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

  • Kiley 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Aunt Moore gave me a deep sense of my disappearing fear. I remember that there was once a movie about memory that made me feel that the most simple and direct label of personal existence is memory. In memory there is the knowledge that we have worked hard to absorb, the three views framed by knowledge, the trajectory of our life, relatives and loved ones, joy and pain, when all these are gone, what is the meaning of life? When alice fans stare and follow

Still Alice quotes

  • Dr. Alice Howland: Good morning. It's an honor to be here. The poet Elizabeth Bishoponce wrote: 'the Art of Losing isn't hard to master: so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.' I'm not a poet, I am a person living with Early Onset Alzheimer's, and as that person I find myself learning the art of losing every day. Losing my bearings, losing objects, losing sleep, but mostly losing memories...

    [she knocks the pages from the podium]

    Dr. Alice Howland: I think I'll try to forget that just happened.

    [crowd laughs]

    Dr. Alice Howland: All my life I've accumulated memories - they've become, in a way, my most precious possessions. The night I met my husband, the first time I held my textbook in my hands. Having children, making friends, traveling the world. Everything I accumulated in life, everything I've worked so hard for - now all that is being ripped away. As you can imagine, or as you know, this is hell. But it gets worse. Who can take us seriously when we are so far from who we once were? Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences change other's perception of us and our perception of ourselves. We become ridiculous, incapable, comic. But this is not who we are, this is our disease. And like any disease it has a cause, it has a progression, and it could have a cure. My greatest wish is that my children, our children - the next generation - do not have to face what I am facing. But for the time being, I'm still alive. I know I'm alive. I have people I love dearly. I have things I want to do with my life. I rail against myself for not being able to remember things - but I still have moments in the day of pure happiness and joy. And please do not think that I am suffering. I am not suffering. I am struggling. Struggling to be part of things, to stay connected to whom I was once. So, 'live in the moment' I tell myself. It's really all I can do, live in the moment. And not beat myself up too much... and not beat myself up too much for mastering the art of losing. One thing I will try to hold onto though is the memory of speaking here today. It will go, I know it will. It may be gone by tomorrow. But it means so much to be talking here, today, like my old ambitious self who was so fascinated by communication. Thank you for this opportunity. It means the world to me. Thank you.

  • Dr. Alice Howland: I was looking for this last night.

    Dr. John Howland: [whispering to Anna] It was a month ago.