Those who complain about the "sanitized" ending are missing the point.

Yes, the movie spares us the more agonizing, humiliating, gut-wrenching stages of advanced Alzheimer's, which I witnessed for over 2 years with my own father, but that wasn't the point of this particular movie: The title is "Still Alice," and during the touching finale in which Alice's no-longer resentful daughter reads to her, she is "still Alice"...barely. My interpretation was that we were seeing her final moments as Alice before she descended into the stage of wretched anonymity that she witnessed when she visited the care facility and saw her own future. Perhaps the script might have fleshed out a few more sordid details in that scene (the incontinence, the screaming of repetitious phrases, the rage where none had ever existed before) but I didn't hold that against the filmmakers. This movie addressed one distinctive depiction of this robber of life and addressed it well.


My people skills are fine. It's my tolerance of morons that needs work.