Realistic portrayal of a family dealing with Alzheimer's.

I am not sure why this qualifies as entertainment, or what kind
of entertainment it is. This is a pretty depressing story that just
gets worse, like the disease.

The father, Robert Forster, is grappling with his wife, Blythe Danner,
who is getting worse and worse dementia. The son, Michael Shannon,
and the daughter, Hillary Swank, bicker about the family things, who
does all the work and who has the Power Of Attorney.

It is a hard movie to watch, but it rungs fairly true. There is a moment,
not played for laughs, where the son has to tell his sister that their Mom
did not know who he was and was hitting on him.

I suppose these type of movies serve the purpose of explaining parts of
life to people who would otherwise have no idea of the things that can
happen. Most of us are so busy trying to take care of ourselves that we
don't spend a lot of time thinking about others and their trails and
tribulations. The more isolated we get the less we know of each other
and the less we care.

This is not really conducive to family life, or a country's life. The movie
is done pretty well, but it is not an upper of a movie by any means and
is all about how life ends.