Still Alice
This inexpressibly painful and sad film
from Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer is about a woman who declines steeply into early-onset
Alzheimer’s just after her 50th birthday, and somehow becomes a ghost haunting
her own life.
It features a queenly, poignant and much-garlanded
lead performance from Julianne
Moore as linguistics professor Alice Howland. She begins the
movie at the triumphant height of her career, enjoying a happy life with her
husband John (Alec Baldwin), prosperous empty-nesters in a sumptuous New
York Lydia Alice ’s life appears to be her
strained relationship with Lydia ,
who has rejected college to be a struggling actor in Los Angeles
With a terrible, almost Nabokovian irony,
Alice’s dementia begins with her inability to
remember the word ‘lexicon’ while giving a
lecture, although Westmoreland and Glatzer show how the condition has a kind of
prehistorical moment at her birthday dinner the
night before, when Alice overhears her son-in-law talk about “sisters” arguing
and for some reason thinks he must be talking about her relationship with her
own sister, who died in a car crash when they were teenagers. As her disease
advances, Alice Alice
Structure of the Lead：
WHEN:2014.12.05
WHAT: Alzheimer's disease
WHERE:
WHY:
HOW:
Key words:
1.
steeply:急
2.
onset:發病
3.
poignant:淒美的
4.
garlanded:花環
5.
sumptuous:豪華
6.
dementia:癡呆
7.
lexicon:辭彙
8.
prehistorical:史前
9.
defy:違抗
沒有留言:
張貼留言