Hello there!
Today I want to talk about Still Alice, a film that I watched yesterday and completely blew me away. I'll try my best not to spoil it, but before you read this, please take 2 minutes to watch the trailer.
The trailer itself gave me goosebumps.
Still Alice is a brilliant film, possibly with one of best performances by Julianne Moore.
The first scene is worlds away from the last one, but is still Alice.
Throughout the whole movie, we experience the same feelings as Alice, we'll find ourselves trying to remember the same address she has to remember while she's at the doctor, we'll find ourselves at the seaside without knowing how, we'll find ourselves looking at the mirror with Alice wondering who she is and who we are.
At some point, there will be a scene when Alice will make a speech. Please, pay attention to what she says; that moment is powerful, is a moment when even if she's loosing everything, she will be the same Alice she was before the disease. Again, Still Alice. This scene will give you something, and it honestly makes me shiver if I think about it.
Her voice. Alice's voice changes in every single aspect. At the beginning of the movie she is loud, her voice is almost annoying but from that moment her voice will slowly change. We'll go through every stage of the art of loosing everything, and her voice will become childish. It will fade. Like her memories and her whole life. There is a scene, in particular, in which she's with her husband and they are eating a yoghurt, her husband said something and when Alice replied, her voice was so childish yet so powerful that broke my heart.
The technology in the whole movie has an important role.
Alice will use her IPhone to write some questions that she will answer every morning, trying to remember the name of her oldest daughter or where she lives. And even the small act of answering those questions or using the phone to write down where she wants to go, is planned and showed in such a deep way that will become heart breaking for us to see it. She will also record a video, at the beginning of the film, that will play a major role later. And it that moment, I realised how amazing Julianne Moore is. She will be a completely different person, we see her in the video and we see her a few months later watching it and we realise the we almost forgot that that Alice existed, cause we were completely into her head.
Her family will play an important role. Her husband will be by her side in the whole movie, her sons are perfectly represented. Kristen Stewart will play an important role, she is the one that ask thewhat it feels like, she will be last person Alice will talk to in the movie, when she is not able to talk anymore and all she is able say is a word. A simple word that makes the movie end in the best way possible.
I've watched this movie after watching a review on an italian youtube channel called "nonapritequestotubo" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAR0Zaeelow) and it was truly inspiring. I thought I'll share this with you as well.
Please watch that movie.
Please visit these websites about the disease. Keep informed, is free.
http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Alzheimers-disease/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Laura.
