as you might know the first IGCSE exam (prose, poetry and unseen) was today for us, the second. While I was stressing a lot this weekend, I decided to watch a movie to calm down a little bit and relax. The movie I chose is Still Alice made by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, from the book of Lisa Genova. It's a recent movie, it actually came out at the beginning of 2015. The main actress is Julianne Moore (who is one of my favourite actresses of all the time, I just find her incredible and invite you to watch the movies she is on), Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth and Kristen Stewart. At first I thought the casting was "okay" (except for Queen Moore!) but all the actors are very good in it!
The story is about Alice Howland, a married 50 years old mother and a linguistics teacher at Columbia University. One day, she starts to forget words and it becomes worse when she gets lost while she was running on the campus of the University. After these strange events she decides to see a doctor who makes her passe many brain's exams and they finally diagnose her with symptoms of an early Alzheimer disease. She has to tell her family, her colleagues and all the persons she meets. She has to start living with her disease and deal with it to keep the most normal life.
It is a really beautiful movie, but also a teaching movie that helps you know/understand a lot of things about this terrible disease. Because this illness is not only about losing your memories, but losing EVERYTHING! How to write, where is a piece in your house, who are the people around you, forget to eat... Obviously it doesn't touch only the sick person, but also his/her social life and the person around him/her. We get to know more about things that aren't often the subject of a movie such as this disease, or people suffering from it (especially early diagnosed).
I do recommend it (that's why I'm writing this article!) BUT DON'T WATCH IT IF YOU DON'T FEEL VERY WELL!!! It did not relax me AT ALL (even if it helped me get off the IGCSE exam)...
Hope you'll enjoy it ! Byyye :)
Thank you for precising that I'm not supposed to watch it if I don't feel good, reading your article I was like "Oh OK I'm going to look for it and watch it very soon" but as I am exhausted and so in a bad mood when I'm at home these days, I'm going to wait a little ^^
ReplyDeleteTHANKS I LOVE YOU JULIETTE YOU'RE SO GREAT WITH ALL YOUR SUGGESTIONS!! I'M GONNA WATCH IT, TRUST ME!! <333
ReplyDeleteI watched it last week and I just loved it! I agree : DO NOT watch it if you don't feel very well! I really like Julianne Moore and I thought she was great. It is all about how she lives with it and the impacts of this disease on her family and friends etc...and it really touched me. At one point, she does a speech (that I will not spoil) and I just found it beautiful. It made me cried a bit (well, ok... a lot) but I loved it. Watch it if you are in a good mood, and at worst you'll see a good movie!
ReplyDeleteThanks Juliette for sharing that ^^
Yes, I really don't suggest it if you feel a bit sad or if you're just in a bad mood but it worth watching it !!!
ReplyDeleteManon, I'm glad you love my articles, it makes me want to share more of my "no social life" with you all !!!
oh god, i just finished to watch it.. and I feel like wow..
ReplyDeleteit was so touching.
Ahah! Told you Manon, hope you're still doing fine...
ReplyDeleteYour article and all those comments made me really want to watch it! I'll tell you what I'll think about it Juliette. ;)
ReplyDeleteI need to watch it! It will be a good way to get rid of my french baccalauréat revisions haha
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch a procrastinating people we make in the OIB x)
I'm glad that you posted this article, I'm definitely gonna watch it during the summer!
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