Pills scene is unrealistic (spoilers)

We don't know her thought process in that scene though, or how long she was going back and forth between the computer and upstairs. It is likely she did forget several times what she had been doing and just kept returning to the kitchen and seeing the video.

Each case is unique with Alzheimer's.

Not easy to argue how Alice's disease is manifesting after a few months, or what she would be able to comprehend, remember or actual capable of doing.

Having cared for a relative in an Alzeheimers ward, it should be stated that each patient I observed was very different.

Some had specific patterns where they were lucid around sundown, then went back to complete memory loss.
Some had short term memory loss, but could remember dozens of songs from the past. Some wandered around and had lost all language. Some were constantly agitated and wept, screamed etc. or fixated on one idea and repeated it over and over. Those people had to be separated and sedated.

I donated a large collection of classic movies on VHR that patients watched in a lounge. Once in a while they would recognize Fred Astaire or Judy Garland or John Wayne or Marlon Brando. This was always noted, because many did not recognize their own relatives yet the movies sometimes triggered memory.

As for using laptops, I did not observe that. Most seemed to have forgotten how to use even basic daily objects, like a comb or brush. Of course, the people I observed were too old to be very familiar with laptops even without mental impairment. Not to be disrespectful. It will be interesting to note if people these days who were raised with computers will be able to remember how to use these objects. Hopefully, there will be a cure for Alzheimer's in the near future.

It's one of the most tragic things I've ever observed. I completely understand the Alice character making a plan to off herself in the future. What she did not realize is that as her disease progressed she would be unable to carry out her own instructions, nor would she understand her own prior plans.

From my very limited understanding of the disease, memory loss works backward but not in a straight line. Sort of like in pockets. I have experience with Traumatic Brain Injury which has similar effects on the brain, but as another poster said, EVERY victim is different.
My opinion is that the movie is a fairly accurate depiction of the disease progression, but not nearly accurate enough of the toll on family and caregivers, AND of the options for institutionalism. Truthfully I've never seen such a palace hospital or the unfair representation of patients. That being said, it was a "movie", not a documentary. And telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth would not have been watched. People don't want to face the unvarnished facts. What the movie did do was get the conversation started. And that's a good thing.

An independent mind is difficult to enslave.

It was actually very realistic.

Yes it was very realistic. It happens to me like that all the time.

Your entire assumption is wrong .Clearly you have no idea how complicated the human brain is, and you try to 'make it work' according to your own logic. well, it doesn't work like that.

" people usually forget what they were doing altogether" --a wild guess, and a very wrong one. Who told you that? Have you been studying patents for the last 10 years? That's a wrongful conclusion. It's very likely that she'll forget one thing, and not the other. Even scientists don't really know how exactly the brain works, and they surely don't know enough about Alzheimer, otherwise it would have been cured already. So you're trying to guess here things our best scientists don't even know?

Your entire assumption is wrong .Clearly you have no idea how complicated the human brain is, and you try to 'make it work' according to your own logic. well, it doesn't work like that.

" people usually forget what they were doing altogether" --a wild guess, and a very wrong one. Who told you that? Have you been studying Alzheimer's patients for the last 10 years? That's a wrongful conclusion. It's very likely that she'll forget one thing, and not the other. Even scientists don't really know how exactly the brain works, and they surely don't know enough about Alzheimer, otherwise it would have been cured already. So you're trying to guess here things our best scientists don't even know?

lol everyone's brain work differently when they're in a healthy condition, not to mention when they have Alzheimer's so it's quite ignorant of you to think she must have behaved in a certain way. any way to be honest!