Wonderful movie and Bill is very grateful to me cuz i nagged him into seeing this. He wanted to see Jupiter Ascending which had gotten negative reviews. We both rated this movie a 9 and Julianne Moore's acting was 10 squared! She was illustrious in portraying a 50 year old married linguistic professor with 3 adult children who is diagnosed with early onset familial Alzheimer's disease.
The film shows in detail with no sentimentality or aggressive tear-jerker scenes and without soap opera drama, the devastation to the person with the disease and every member of the family. The movie was the perfect length too.
Alec Baldwin was pretty darn good as the overly workaholic doctor who was supportive and loving (it was obvious he and Alice had a good marriage) and yet realistic about her progression and how it would impact on his career.
There were some great scenes in the movie. One showed her family sitting at a table talking about a care-giver for Alice and she is sitting mute and with flat affect on the couch watching them and the camera reflecting her isolation and lack of understanding of what's going on by having the family filmed with a fuzzy out of focus technique. Another scene is when she gets lost while doing her daily run on campus; the panic and confusion on her face was so intense, that i could easily feel that total blankness and lack of identification with her surroundings. (i think i liked this scene so much because i have been lost a fair amount of times in my life and i know what it feels like.)
The ending is perfect. I think the only 'criticism' of the movie is that Alice's life was so perfect with good looks and great children and a nice husband and a recognized and applauded career and money. and because of these life privileges, Alice's story did not have to also address questions like health care coverage; living situations, lack of emotional support. The film is based on a novel.
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