I have to write a paper on this movie for my Intro to Human Disease class and one of the questions asks to explain the disease process. Can anyone help me to remember what was said about it in the movie? I don't remember a whole lot being said. The movie mostly focused on how she was treaded throughout her illness. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I can't really help but say that you should try too look more to the human reply this film makes. My own mother died of cancer within a few months of diagnosis and I still can't help but be emotional when Spiegel im Spiegel is played. To me diseases such as this isn't just a cold clinical process that leads to non existence but an essentially human process with tragedy and the last remnants of dignity slowly being stripped away.
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...she was trying to make a point about feeling like she was stripped of her humanity and instead of being a person, she felt reduced to her 'condition'. She wasn't a professor anyomore, she was an 'aggressive cancerous tumor'.
It was introspective and personal...if they wanted to get into reality, they'd add dozens and dozens of patients--some screaming in the night. Different doctors who stay for 10 minutes and switch every couple of days...and you need at least one sociopathic nurse to round off the cast.
They always show the kindly nurse with the heart of gold. Wait until you get the nurse who looks like she cares but never comes back with the bedpan...you also need the nurse who doesn't know what they're doing...usually, wakes you up in the middle of the night to give you a sleeping pill, or tries unsuccessfully to take a blood sample.
The disease process? Take a number--your on a treadmill...Next! Now serving Patient No. 349-789-492-353-789.
I had a nurse who stood outside my hospital room, talking at the top of her voice with another nurse while I was trying to sleep -- it was fricking 3:00 a.m., just shut up!
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