Karry
Best movie of this year hands down!
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
paulclaassen
This is a truly remarkable film. It puts Alzheimers in a whole new perspective - how it affects those around the patient as well. Julianne Moore is excellent! The film is very natural, never becoming sentimental. The story and acting from the entire cast is superb. For someone who went through something similar on a personal level, this was touching, sad and heart wrenching. Although it was clear what was to come, I really loved the movie's ending. This was STUNNING!
jonghoonkang
Although human beings suffer from various diseases, the most difficult disease among themselves and their families will be dementia.What did I do now? How do I make coffee? Where is the bathroom? Why does he pretend to know me?If we do not have memories, can we say that we are living people?The film is well described as to what happens when you get dementia, which is enough to shock the viewer. A similar movie is The Notebook (2004).PS: Thanks for reading. Please understand that my English is not good. ^^
foodie03
This is a beautiful film. I was blown away by emotional performances of the actresses. Alice has had a nice and happy life before she gets Alzheimer, which rips everything that she has acquired through her life from her. The disease leads to her uncomfortable life, and she is not able to be like her. That is the thing we are the most afraid of. I t is important for us to live by ourselves independently and like our selves. Alice gets to have a weak recognition about who she is and people around her, which makes her suffer from it. However, the most stunning scene is the warm support from her family in this hard situation. No matter how worse Alice's condition is getting, they always stay with her. I was impressed with her family. Besides, this film uses a beautiful representation of a butterfly as a short life, which reminds us of a short life as same as Alice. Meanwhile, the camera work is reflected by Alice's condition. As she got worse, the monitor gets vague. We can see things as same as Alice. The last scene also moved my heart.
wsucram
As a person with a neurological disease, and the daughter and grand daughter/caregiver of tow that suffered from Alzheimer's disease, I have to debate just a bit on one comment left here. While this movie is Hollywood, the story and cast did try to make things somewhat realistic and brought some attention to the disease. People do get a glimpse of the beginning stages of Alzheimer's, I don't think anyone is ready to watch the true heartbreak of the end result. The idea behind the movie was the impact on Alice and then her family, this could have been explored more, but it is a 2 hour movie. I was glad they stuck with Julianne's character and the digression into her past, which is of course what happens. The moment of the left suicide instructional video when Alice could not follow the simplest of instructions, shows the disease and how debilitating it is, even early on. The secondary characters, were just that, secondary and what are they supposed to do? In this respect, the movie hit a home run..absolutely. The question being "What do we do with her now and who cares what Lydia thinks?" I was impressed that one of the family members (like myself) choose to alter their lives and care for someone who ultimately has no idea who they are.The end, well..if you saw the movie you most likely had known someone with the disease. I thought they ended that in a positive way.
