When Alzheimer’s disease was mentioned before, there were more stories like this: the old man sat there calmly and blankly, as a child, telling the old man who he is over and over again, patiently or helplessly, trying to awaken the old man’s memory. A little memory that remains.
Whenever this time comes, the old man's peaceful appearance is in sharp contrast with the painful struggle of his children: "My father (mother) does not know me anymore". Even though we have never experienced this kind of pain, we still feel sympathy for our children.
When such a film appeared from the perspective of the elderly of the sick, I suddenly discovered that as patients, they are not the most painful.
Struggling in the quagmire of fragile memories, with the last pride and stubbornness, trying to prove to others and also for myself that I am not old yet, still capable, and even remember. But in this process, the sinking deeper and deeper, as if God used his hands to cover the light shining deep in their hearts, getting smaller and smaller, until they were completely closed, to the endless darkness.
No matter what kind of experience they had when they were young, what kind of achievements they have achieved, once they stepped into this black hole of memory, they are destined to be unable to look back, and they can only let this memory death god pull himself deeper and darker bit by bit. place.
We may never know what kind of self-doubt, anger, resentment and pain they experienced in their hearts when they started to realize this in the early stages of the illness. Is the peace on the last face a compromise chosen after recognizing this fact after repeated self-doubt? But I'm more willing to accept another idea: Fortunately, they don't remember the pain.
Think about it this way, when the patient is already in a serious condition, as normal people, in order to alleviate our pain, we try to wake up the memory of the elderly over and over again, so that they can remember the fact that they don’t remember anything over and over again, so that they are awake for a short period of time. Is it cruel for them to experience these again for a while?
At the end of the film, when the nurse told the old man Anthony the truth, the old man thought of his mother. He missed his mother and wanted to go home. Faced with his worried daughter and unbearable son-in-law, he is like a kid who has made mistakes, just wanting his mother to pick him home.
Why is it more difficult for the elderly to be forgiven and forgiven for making mistakes than children
That's because the old people don't have their own parents
Old people with Alzheimer’s disease didn’t make any mistakes, they just got sick
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