ordinary love, great love

Clemens 2022-03-29 09:01:02

In the film world, Alzheimer's disease has gradually become the "darling" of the screen, such as Rachel McAdams in "The Notebook", Son Yezhen in "The Eraser in My Mind", "The Five Years Stolen" "Bai Baihe", and the "Still Alice" after Julian Moore.

Alzheimer's disease is a rather awkward name in our country. We often hear it in the Spring Festival Gala sketches and jokes among friends. It is used to describe the opponent's poor memory. Behind the jokes, we all ignore the real damage caused by Alzheimer's, which is a weight that life cannot bear. It is not like other visual diseases on the surface of the patient, but is rooted in your body, gradually eating away at your body and consciousness like the evolution of nature, so when the heroine of this film Alice, a researcher in human communication The professor who has this disease is an unspeakable irony.

This film is a very life-like film, which makes us truly feel that the people on the screen live by our side. The film does not choose the process of how the protagonist fights the disease like other works, but shows the affection through the protagonist's disease. Great, great love. The affection and love composed of husband and children surround Alice in layers. This is what we often call "the deep expression of love". If the expression of love in a movie does not have a sense of hierarchy, it will be difficult. resonate with the audience.

The role of a patient created by Julianne Moore is extremely difficult. She perfectly interprets this role with her restrained performance method. The Oscar-winning actress deserves her name. In the film, the passage of her speech on stage after her illness is touching. We face all kinds of losses from birth, and eventually we will lose our memories and consciousness, and then die, but no one really wants to lose, so even if we do forget everything one day, please remember that from family, friends, lovers Ordinary love, great love. Because that's something that the disease can never take away.

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Extended Reading
  • Nicklaus 2022-04-01 09:01:04

    Moore's performance adds appeal to an otherwise bland film~

  • Verdie 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    Aunt Julianne's nomination for the best actress is stable, but if you want to take it, there is no drama, there is no explosive performance, some are just a large section of confession-style self-report, under the slow rhythm of the whole film, it is like a cup of boiled water, it is better to disappear Lover heroine. Added after the Oscars: Nima actually won the award. . .

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.