Pretty good movie, and Moore did a great job (as usual).
But... I wish they'd showed her being moved into a dementia facility (as is pretty much inevitable), then showed her as an old woman finally succumbing to pneumonia after spending the next 16 years as a crying, baby-food-eating nappy-poo-generator.
This movie only covered the first few years of what would have been likely to have been a 15-25 year tragedy.
When you lost that much, it doesn't matter anymore.
shareThe final word of the film is "love" which should embody the spirit one has if they have someone in a home for that long. I know I do.
Your day could be worse
the next 16 years after the ending. Do you really believe she will live another 16 years after? you must be joking. Have you watched the movie too and did you see how fast her Alzheimer progressed? You don't know much about early on-set Alzheimer, do you?
shareEarly-onset progresses much faster. My friend was diagnosed at 54 and died at 56.
And when you tell a story, have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the listener.
That's messed up and a bit scary, sorry.
shareI think she was 50. The opening scene was her 50th birthday party, which I assume was meant to let us know the character's age at the time it began.
shareThat's so sad.
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I think that the writers "spared us" from having to watch the horrid follow-up to Alice's disease level...the writers spared us from watching an already sad movie become much much sadder. I mean we pretty much know what's going to happen to ALICE. We know...
Sad sad movie.
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The movie is told from Alice's point of view. The movie ended with her youngest daughter making an effort to still connect with her mother. Perhaps the movie ended with the last time Alice was able to be herself, the last time she was to communicate. With Alice unable to connect to the outside world, and tell her story, the movie had to end.
shareThat what I thought Mmitchell. Kristen Stewart reciting Harper Pitt's closing monologue from Angels in America and Alice comprehension was sort of the perfect ending and, (at least I though), represented Alice's last connection with another human being.
shareExactly. For me it's all in the title - the film ended while she was literally still Alice. Shortly after scene she stopped being herself forever.
shareLife expectancy for early onset alzheimers is about 10 years at best
So in sixteen years she'd be long dead.
Brain detorization happens much quicker than in older patients