In the process of watching this movie, my biggest feeling is that everything is a coincidence. The protagonist who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease and can’t speak a few words happens to be a linguist. The linguist’s old justice is a doctor who engages in scientific research and can confront a neurologist. The protagonist happens to have a daughter who wants to act " "Three Sisters" is a topic. The protagonist has nothing to worry about except that his daughter is obsessed with acting and her husband is obsessed with career and cannot take care of herself full-time. Except for the nuclear family, the protagonist has no other family and friends (the mother and sister with good feelings are in When the protagonist died in a car accident at the age of 18, it happened that the protagonist lost his memory and increased the pain), etc. In addition to the unreasonable points in the setting, there are too many coincidences in the plot. When I opened the video that made myself suicide, there was no one around me. I would rather die than holding the computer upstairs so that I could not complete the suicide, etc. wait wait wait.
And all these coincidences are for the theme of the reaction: Alzheimer's disease, loss of self and memory is painful. But, did anyone not know this at first? Although I have never cared for a seriously ill patient, I have seen such a person up close. In my understanding, the weakness and pain of this kind of patients stem from their inability to live as before, or in the way they imagined. The frustration caused by this approach often needs to be vented to the people who take care of themselves, which means that the people who take care of the sick often bear physical exhaustion and additional mental burdens. Therefore, unless a person exists as an island, the problem caused by any serious illness is first physical, but social, and the most painful part of these two kinds of torture is often the pain and powerlessness in daily life. , Rather than an outbreak at a specific time. However, the presentation of the disease in the film is dramatic and superficial, and it is full of more thinking than feeling.
In addition, the pain in the movie seems to be more of the protagonist, and the others have tears at most, but they live as usual. The starting point of the movie is the typical "I", that is, the patient himself. It is painful for "I" to lose my memory. It is also painful for "I" to linger without dignity, and it is extremely selfish for others not to compromise for such a painful me. How the husband himself compromises and takes care of the suffering for the patient has not been shown at all. Only the husband's unwillingness to stay and pay to accompany the protagonist and the husband's insistence on changing jobs make people think that her husband is a ruthless and unrighteous generation.
Being able to make the protagonist pay so much attention to her own feelings is largely due to her sudden illness (the protagonist is just 50 years old), which makes her appear tragic. But in fact, only 5-10% of people who get Alzheimer's disease before the age of 65, of which only 13% are due to genetic inheritance. In other words, the cruelty of Alzheimer's disease for ordinary people is that a person has to suffer aging and loss of memory at the same time, and cases like the protagonist can hardly represent most Alzheimer's disease patients.
Another aspect that does not represent the majority of Alzheimer's patients is the social class of the protagonist. The protagonist and husband are the original partners. The income is so high that there is a two-story building in Manhattan and can support three children in reading and professional drama (to bear the cost of drama performance). Among them, the son who graduated from medical school has a bright future (in theory, he is 26 years old) Above), the eldest daughter is not only married but also has offspring (that is, the oldest 30-year-old has a child, which is unimaginable in the middle and upper class in the United States), and the youngest daughter lives in Bohemia even as a drama. Both husband and wife are PhDs, and the protagonist can become a full professor in Colombia at the age of 50 after having three children at a young age. In terms of family income, a dual-income family seems to have no impact on the family’s life after one of them falls down and needs to hire a nanny. Generally speaking, it is just right to be the 1% or higher elite in the United States.
The 1% chance of getting sick happens to people with 1% income. It does make the story more dramatic, but the tragedy of one person is really more dramatic than that of tens of millions of ordinary people who struggle in knowledge, economy, and society after getting sick. Tragedy? If it is a true story, then the tragedy of one life is indeed equivalent to the tragedy of all lives. If it is a story made by myself...
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