Monday, January 12, 2015

Still Alice

I am writing this as I still have tears in my eyes from the beauty of this movie, of how unexpected life is, how we are blessed that we are healthy and how it is hard for families who have someone with a non curable disease.

This story is about Alice, a middle aged ( around 50 year old ) Columbia linguistic professor, very smart and very successful, who has an amazing marriage and three children. She realizes that she has problem remembering things and after doing many MRIs and test she is diagnosed with early age alzheimer's which was genetically passed on to her from her father.
Julianne Moore does a great job playing Alice's role and showing her struggle as the disease is progressing and it makes her lose her identity, abilities and language which she was defined with them. It is amazing how you can deeply feel what happens to her and how her memory is deteriorating and she is struggling to survive but leaving notes and alarms and practice memorizing all the time.
Another beautiful thing about the movie is how her family are coping with the situation all of them being very supportive and helpful specially her husband and then her younger daughter with whom she didn't have a deep relationship.

I would definitely recommend watching this movie if you have the heart to do it because it gets very emotional, I would give a 7/10 to this movie 

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