I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but the directional and story choices the director took with this film were really fantastic. Not the typical oscar bait drama I thought it was going to be. As someone who has seen family members struggle with this awful disease it's spot on. Really tough movie to watch, but I highly recommend it. Hopkins deserves an oscar!
shareMy thoughts exactly.
shareYes! I could not agree more. It reminded me so much of my own difficult experience with my late Mother who had Alzheimer's. It was very difficult to watch, but I think I now have a better understanding of what she went through.
If Anthony Hopkins doesn't get the Oscar, the fix was obviously in.
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I tend to eschew dementia dramas, but so glad I didn't this one! I wouldn't have anyway, with Sir Anthony in it. Have adored him ever since Magic.
shareI think the movie was called "Away From Me" was pretty good about dementia.
Just looked ... cannot find "Away From Me" ... it must have been another name.
There's been a few good ones. The recent movie with Lance Henrickson and Viggo
Mortensen. Not many people go see these kinds of movies, so I am not sure it
is fair to choose a best one just yet.
Oh, the movie was called "Away from Her".
Viggo's movie is "Falling".
As someone who worked with people with dementia, Hopkin's demeanor was so spot on that it was giving me PTSD. The way it showed how suspicious he was, and why, as we see the story from his perspective, was incredibly well done and was exactly like a lot of the men in particular. But you have to keep in my with these people that they're just like you and me and are not some evil pricks that are just out to get you. They just want answers because they're so disoriented that we cannot even comprehend how disoriented they truly are. Me and my coworkers would often lose our cool as you have to be incredibly patient or have some weird personality trait that fits this line of work (there's a reason the turnover rate is so high in this line of work). Although physical violence is where I draw the line, but I would be lying if I said I hadn't been aware of it at the place I worked at. Not anything as dramatized as in the movie, but some of the staff there would be more than rough with a patient they disliked when helping them dress and such.
And yes, this movie is probably the best movie in the dementia genre. Still Alice is probably the worst I've seen, as I feel this subject requires a lot more respect than most and having Alec Baldwin and other A list celebrities in a run of the mill drama with lazy cinematography and writing, was just offensive to me. Amour is another really good one btw, although it's not really dementia in this case, but a wife slowly deteriorating after a stroke.
better than that Alice movie?
shareReally hard to watch but excellent movie nevertheless. It's been a while since I saw a movie that just grabbed my attention for start to finish in this way.
shareI'm 38 and I felt I was having dementia.
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