Alzheimer's syndrome is increasingly becoming a popular subject, both in movies and literary works. This disease has a cruel metaphorical color. It has a quiet and tyrannical atmosphere. It does not damage the outside but cannibalize the heart a little bit. It slowly swallows all the dignity of a person and makes the patient forget friends and relatives. Forget the world, forget instinct, forget yourself.
As a world-famous linguist, Alice began to forget how to spell words and started to stumble when speaking. Is there any more desperate punishment than this? The doctor finally confirmed that she had early-onset Alzheimer's disease. The foundation of this typical middle-class woman's life began to shake. The role played by Julianne Moore has always maintained the intellectual and middle-class rational and forbearing attitude. She uses a calm tone of inquiring about things that have nothing to do with her to discuss the condition with the doctor. She is on her mobile phone. Write down simple questions, such as how many months are your birthday, what is your daughter's name, etc., and answer them once a day to check your condition. Julianne Moore’s choice of interpretation made this desperate woman not show any extreme emotions, but only had heartbreaking eyes. She concealed bottomless despair in her daily daily life.
If it is said that the harm to patients caused by illness is only the first level of torture, then "Still Alice" also discusses the destruction of interpersonal relationships by illness. The movie extends Alzheimer's injury to the entire family. It not only destroys the patient's body, but also erodes the relationship between family members. In the movie, after Alice was diagnosed, due to the heredity of the disease, her two and three children made different choices. One of them decided not to go for examination, the other two found one negative and one positive, and one of her daughters Happened to be pregnant again. At this time, the misfortune caused by this simple disease has evolved into a sin. Alice has changed from a patient to an innocent perpetrator in a sense. For her, this is another time. It was a serious blow, and the family relationship began to have a certain unspeakable taste.
There is a category of works in American dramas that has profound anatomy of family relationships. Although "Still Alice" is not a typical of this type, it also examines everyone in the family system through this terminally ill story. The husband should go to career or take care of the family. The rebellious daughter should become well-behaved at this time to accompany her mother’s last awake time or continue to chase her own heart. Of course, after hesitating and entangled, as a mainstream movie, it still gives There was a warm ending.
"Still Alice" has always been discussing dignity. This pursuit of dignity permeates every scene in the movie. Even though Alice is ill, she insists on doing everything she can. She goes to lectures and works, tidy up herself every day, makes tea for herself, and cooks for family gatherings. This kind of maintenance of daily life and the maintenance of a human face is the best comment on dignity. When we are facing a desperate situation, how do we lay our dignity? This is an unsolvable problem. Perhaps, not giving up the pursuit of dignity is itself the brightest part of human nature.
The cruelest scene in the movie is the scene in which Alice decides to commit suicide. When she first fell ill, she recorded a video and told her future self that when she was at a loss, she would go upstairs to find the bottle of medicine and drink it all. But in the end, she watched this video, but couldn't remember what she was looking for in the drawer again and again, and when she finally got the medicine bottle, she was actually unconscious of what she was doing. She can't end her life with dignity at all, this is the utter sadness. Of course, she didn't end her life, and walked towards chaos with the company of her family. But after all, she has struggled and fought with disease, and that process is enough to prove the dignity of human nature.
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