Memories are truly all that is most important in life. In addition to the joy of being able to remember happy moments, it is through memory that we begin to learn everything we need to know in life, build our character and create a career. What happens to a person who can no longer remember anything he has learned for 50 years of his life? It ceases to exist because it loses its identity.
That's exactly what Forever Alice (Still Alice) shows us through the history of Alice (Julianne Moore), a professor of psychology at the prestigious Harvard University, a specialist in language acquisition, happily married and with three adorable children. After getting lost on campus, Alice decides to go to the doctor to find out the cause of her memory loss and finds out that she faces, at the age of 50, the diagnosis of Alzheimer's of Early Installation.
Adapted from namesake book in Lisa Genova, bestselling author and Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Harvard University, the feature narrates how Alice begins to live with the disease, the difficult adaptation that her husband John (Alec Baldwin) need to do to take care of Alice, her children's reaction Anna (Kate Bosworth), Tone (Hunter Parrish) and Lydia (Kristen Stewart) and how your life totally changes.
Forever Alice stands out among other works related to the disease, for faithfully portraying the stages that the bearer has to face, without making a big drama focused on the difficulty that everyone around has to suffer. It is really very instructive to see Alice trying to be independent as far as possible, using her cell phone as an aid to her memory and always testing herself to see how good she is. No other film has been able to demonstrate how much a person unlearns, completely losing his identity and personality like that. Alice was super intelligent, one of the most praised teachers and in some time, she barely knew how to speak, because the words ran out of memory. This makes you reflect on how unbearable it must be to lose everything you have struggled to achieve your whole life, after all, since we were born our life is all about acquiring knowledge, whether to walk and talk, at school, in professionalization, in raising children, etc. and it is this knowledge that defines us.
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Julianne Moore perfectly portrays the damage that each stage causes to the person, completely justifying the more than deserved Oscars, the Golden Globe, the Spirit Award, the BAFTA, the SAG Awards and the Hollywood Awards that the actress received for her role. One scene that stood out to me and proved that perfection was when she watched a video she recorded when she was diagnosed, when she was already at a more advanced stage. As the camera cuts from the video for the current Alice, we see the differences in appearance, with Alice showing on her skin how much more dejected, tired, her smile is more faded.
Forever Alice is a sensitive and faithful warning about Alzheimer's Disease, which affects around 35.6 million people worldwide, 1.2 million in Brazil.
Directed by the duo Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, the feature film premieres tomorrow in Brazilian cinemas.
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