SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Dorathen
Better Late Then Never
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
bethanyprior-59441
I really enjoyed this adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel. Julianne Moore certainly delivers an Oscar-worthy performance. I thought the best acting, however, was the line Kate Bosworth delivered, when she said she loved hot dogs. Believable.
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.
philipcfromnyc
I will not belabor the points made by so many who have already contributed glowing reviews to this movie, which features one of my favorite actresses (Julianne Moore) deliver one of her finest performances. There was one note, however, which I found to be incredibly ham-fisted and which detracted from my overall enjoyment of an otherwise outstanding movie:SPOILER ALERT!!!! =================In the scene where Alice is about to drink down all of the Rohypnol tablets which she hoarded while still lucid and coherent, at the EXACT moment that she raised the tablets to her lips, the front door slammed shut as her daughter entered the house, alarmed that her mother had been left alone for the day. Of course, in true Hollywood fashion, this caused Alice to drop all of the tablets to the floor! PLEASE -- PLEASE -- PLEASE do not insult me as a viewer with such a ham-fisted plot device! Rather let the daughter enter the home a half hour later, in time to have the hospital revive her mother -- or rework the ending so that this scene becomes the final scene. But DON'T INSULT ME AS A VIEWER WITH SUCH A TRITE, PREDICTABLE NARRATIVE! (Also, Rohypnol is not available for prescription in the United States -- it may only be imported by travelers from other nations, in strictly limited supplies. How did Alice's physician prescribe this sleeping pill, and where did Alice fill the prescription? This is not nitpicking -- these are valid observations, and a reworking of the script should have caught and remedied these errors, the first being far, far more serious than the latter two.)This heavy-handed and blatantly false note detracted from my enjoyment of what was in all other respects an extremely moving, deeply touching experience. Obviously, this is not a movie which one ENJOYS watching -- but it DOES offer the viewer a portal through which to view the world of both an ALZ patient and the caregivers for such patients.Julianne Moore certainly outdid herself in this role. It will be very difficult for her to rise to so high a bar in future productions ("Children of Men" came close, albeit an earlier work than "Still Alice")....PHILIP CHANDLER
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.
