muscy
She is the driving force in this movie and it is good for our older crowds.
bandkstone
I was very moved by this film. I thought the acting was excellent. I am mystified that so many people think it was disappointing because it was not "realistic."It's a STORY people. Guessing the same people who love Spiderman can suspend their disbelief.
kgroneman-250-698012
This film could have deserved the high ratings it has received, but I think those ratings are based on the emotional factor of this film which, I agree, is high, hence my giving it 5 stars. However, there are several things lacking in this movie which took away the other 5 stars. Some things are just too unrealistic:There seems to be no friends or family of the main characters * The head nurse seems to have all the time in the world and never seems to be doing anything * The husband doesn't call police or even seem upset when his wife takes off on skis and goes missing. * There are no family pictures or music or any effort at all to remind the wife of who she is. The husband is totally unhelpful in this regard. Once he grabs her by the shoulders and tells her who he is, but otherwise is just too calm and too removed.If they would have added some elements of realism to this scenario, it would have been a lovely movie.
evening1
I work with older adults and this movie presents to me, for the first time in memory, a woman who actually WANTS to move into a nursing home.Apparently Fiona has long harbored resentment toward her husband, who took advantage of his position as a college professor to bed many of his grad students. Now the disinhibition that comes with Alzheimer's is freeing her up to leave the seemingly unrepentent Grant.This is a movie about selfishness and loss. First Grant cruelly betrays his wife. Then, 45 years later, he separates her from a man at the nursing home who is easier to love -- uncomplicated, mute, and gentle. Grant does this out of jealousy and a sense of ownership, with nary a concern about how it will affect his increasingly confused wife.Finally she forgets Aubrey, just as she had initially forgotten Grant, and ultimately she is able to hug her husband again. He wins. Yay. Goody for him.In all, this is a rather bleak vision of a disease that is rapidly coming of age.
AD
