It reminds me so much of my late Mother who had Alzheimer's. It was difficult to watch,
but I now think I have a better idea of what she went through late in her life. I can only
hope that I never get this terrible disease!
If Anthony Hopkins doesn't get an Oscar for his brilliant performance, the fix was obviously in.
8.5/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TZb7YfK-JI&ab_channel=SonyPicturesClassics
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Looks like an interesting movie. If you are around your relatives over time during this you know what it's like and what they and you go through. It's way worse than anything they show in a movie!
As to acting, I don't think it is hard to act crazy, it is not an acting role really. People get Oscars and lots of kudos for this because they are trying to bring it to people's attention earlier in life so both sides can be aware.
It's an excellent movie. Sir Anthony did an excellent job, and deserves an Oscar imho. And his character was NOT crazy,
he had dementia. There's a huge difference there. You would know that if you had experienced it in a loved one as I did.
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> And his character was NOT crazy, he had dementia. There's a huge difference there.
One kind of crazy is demented, and there are many other kinds of crazy too, but not that huge a difference in terms of behavior. Dementia people get violent or can endanger themselves.
No, not normally. My late Mother (and a friend's late Mother) had Alzheimer's, so I've had lots of contact with dementia patients. Most of them are completely harmless, just confused.
I never experienced any violence from any of them.
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My uncle became quite nasty and violence when he had dementia. And also by the time they are institutionalized they are usually drugged up so much you do not see frequent violence, it's before they get institutionalized when they are reacting to other people about their own frustrations with life, or with people trying to tell them what to do. And in general women are not violent nearly to the extent men are.
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Sorry to hear about your uncle.
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I witnessed my partner's mother through stages of Alzheimer's from when she was aware that she could no longer follow conversations or recognize ordinary objects to forgetting people she knew. Then to violent outbursts from a typically sweet woman. Then to loss of daily functions far beyond what this movie depicted. When she was institutionalized, it was equally sad to see the people who were initially her friends/co-inhabitants of the nursing home as they declined on the same path. "The Father" brilliantly took us into the mindset of someone who must feel they're being gaslighted as their reality crumbles.
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