6,5/10
Certainly a very good Performance by Julianne Moore. Still Alice is an interesting display of a human`s decay
It´s been a couple days now that I saw it and I´m still not sure what to make of it. I don´t want to say something bad about the movie because it isn´t bad at all. It´s a very serious and sensible topic. Julianne Moore plays great. It´s just that I think in showing of everything that goes on with the illness and the effect it has on friends/family/work ect the story progresses to fast. What I mean is they are just dealing with one thing and the next minute there is another. I don´t say this often about a particular movie but I think this one would have benefitted from some extra playing time.
Still, as mentioned before this is a movie worth watching.
I have to say that this movie left me with a heavy heart.. I truly felt for Alice and I have to say that the idea of having an illness that is not only eating away at your body but going after the most precious possession that anyone of us have which are our memories and knowing who and how our loved ones feel about us, seems plain out horrifying.
Moore delivered an extremely heartfelt performance and the way she would look lost, confused, or terrified made me feel like I want to reach inside the TV set and just hug her.
I really liked the movie and how it focused that some illnesses really infect an entire family..
The film had its world première at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2014.
Moore's performance has earned universal acclaim including wins for a Golden Globe for Best Actress – Drama, Critics' Choice Movie Award, a SAG Award, a BAFTA Award and an Academy Award, among other nominations.
A realistic depiction of Alzheimer's disease, captured by an emotional script and fine performances.
Script: 10
The script is clean and simple, it doesn't try to diminish the devastating effect Alzheimers disease has on the individual and their families. The story does a good job of depicting how different people react to the development of the disease, some adapting and accepting earlier than others.
Main cast: 12
Julianne Moore in her best performance yet, capturing the slow mental degradation of a person with Alzheimer's perfectly. It's a very down-to-earth performance with explosive emotions. Moore deserved her Academy Award for this performance.
I wouldn't blame anyone for thinking that Moore and Alec Baldwin feel like an odd couple, but they're surprisingly natural together. He captures the precarious position if someone having to watch the love of his life slowly fade away.
Supporting cast: 9
You can hardly say that Kristen Stewart has to do much-advanced acting here, but she is pretty good when taking into consideration her track record. She is the most fleshed-out of Alice's children and understands her situation better than the others.
Protagonist & antagonist: 11
Alice is a career woman who is struck down by one of the most terrible diseases mankind has struggled with. She puts up a tough fight desire the kids being against her, as she wants to prove to herself and the rest of the world that she is still herself, despite everything she knows and holds dear crumbling in front of her eyes.
Alzheimer's is a tough nut to crack since we haven't cracked it yet. It makes even the strongest-minded person fall in the end.
Production: 10
The production is very down-to-earth, perfectly suitable for the subject matter the film depicts. It doesn't need flashy production values to stand out, because the actors and the script manage that.
Post-production: 9
The minimal music is beautiful and the editing is solid.
Atmosphere: 10
Fortunately, the movie feels grounded in realism, which doesn't take away from its emotional depth. It's heart raking, sad and even difficult to watch at times, but it believably shows just what a bitch Alzheimers can be.
All the strategies Alice utilizes to overcome the obstacles of her decease evoke feelings of triumph and make us see that, despite all, she's still Alice.
Pacing: 10
This is a slow film, which it should be, but Moore amazingly carries it all the way and the emotional depth is strong, so it doesn't feel long.
Expectations: 11
Many similar movies are either too artsy or too mundane to relly work as movies. Still Alice has a magical quality to it, making it feel like something more than your average Academy Award-winning drama.
Replay value: 12
For a movie depicting humanity's fight against one of the most terrible diseases known to man, Still Alice holds up admirably after several rewatches.
Score: 104/120
''At some point [with Alzheimer's], there would simply be no point. I have no control over which yesterdays I keep and which ones get deleted. This disease will not be bargained with.
I will forget today, but that doesn't mean that today doesn't matter.I used to know how the mind handled language, and I could communicate what I knew. I used to be someone who knew a lot. No one asks for my opinion or advice anymore. I miss that. I used to be curious and independent and confident. I miss being sure of things. There's no peace in being unsure of everything all the time. I miss doing everything easily. I miss being a part of what's happening. I miss feeling wanted. I miss my life and my family.
My yesterdays are disappearing, and my tomorrows are uncertain, so what do I live for? I live for each day. I live in the moment. Some tomorrow soon, I'll forget that I stood before you and gave this speech. But just because I'll forget it some tomorrow doesn't mean that I didn't live every second of it today.''
Still Alice was a very touching look at Alzheimer's disease. The story was kept simple, but nevertheless managed to show the personal struggles that the titular character faces, as well as the effect it has on her family. The direction was restrained and served to highlight the acting, with an absolutely fantastic performance by Julianne Moore; I can see why she's become the frontrunner for Best Actress. Unfortunately, Kristen Stewart was terrible in half her scenes and she was definitely the worst part of an otherwise excellent movie. I cried manly tears.
The story moves along without any real conflict apart from Alice's illness - predictable and boring. There is no "waiting" for anything eventful. Scenes unfold and eventually the movie ends. Total lack of character development apart from Alice. I could not wait for this one to end, and when it did, I was completely dissatisfied.
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This isa really touching movie and I was really moved so often. Alzheimer's is just a devastating disease – for both the patients and their relatives…
Julianne Moore is an amazing actress in this movie! What I still don't understand why Kristen Stewart is still cast for any movie… she is just so talentless and has no emotions or brings anything at all into the movie…
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Just another Apple commercial disguised as a (touching) film.
It's always a little bit weird to be grading movies like this because part of the grade probably should be related to the enjoyment of watching the film. However, because of the gravity of the subject matter on some level it seems wrong to grade it in terms of the entertainment value. Does the film do a great job of showing the progression of Alzheimer's on both the victim and the family? You bet. I've been through all of this in the last few years and everything that happened was extremely familiar. Julianne Moore is as good as you would expect her to be in this role. But in terms of entertainment... nothing great here. You know how the movie is going to end and the journey - while triumphant at times - is a sad one. It's a tough watch on a friday night, not just because of the subject matter but also because there really isn't that much going on in the movie. While the film keeps things moving it really isn't a great watch.
While Moore was excellent I think that Kristen Steward and Alec Baldwin had very difficult roles in that they had to be very much in the background. Stewart pulled that off well, Baldwin not so much.
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Hard topic done well. Moore is great. Caring, disease, the slow decline. Timely reminders.
Brilliant performances especially by Julianne Moore. Also very heartbreaking to watch but worth your time.
Amazing movie and very good acting by Moore.
They could develop other characters but they didnt. There is no other conflict than Alice's illness and finally everything becomes very monotonous and predictable.
Oscar merecido pra Julianne Moore, nos faz sofrer junto a personagem enquanto a doença progredia, enquanto ela deixava de ser ela mesma. Confesso que chorei ao ver a inteligente professora se tornar uma sombra do que foi um dia. É triste. Muito triste.
I feel it's hard to review the film on the film alone when I chose to watch it based on the fact I'd just finished the book.
So things that wouldn't normally be an issue were. Such as the infamous 'that's not how it was in the book'. This doesn't usually bother me but as I'd just finished the book and had some emotional attachment to it, I wanted what I'd just imagined on screen.
I think I'll give this film another go in the future so I can judge it on the film as more of a separate entity as the book is too alive in my mind at the moment.
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One of the best performances of Julianne Moore. I believed she was Alice every second of the movie. I read the book when it first came out and I was astounded that a medical doctor had so much talent as Lisa Genova to write this story. Moore really brought out Alice's struggles with her disease straight out of the textbook to real life experiences. She gave people who suffer from this disease a voice, and I'm glad that she won that award, its most deserved.
The performance and the script was so profound that it really moves you. Yes the disease has no cure, yes the disease is neurological and yes the disease shouldn't define who we are after being diagnosed with it. As Moore rightly said, "the disease will not be bargained with". Its like taking a stair down towards the unknown one-step-at-a-time, though for some its fast and for some its a slow process.
Beautiful performance for a well written story.
What disease so devastating! Certainly, the film is bleak because a degenerative chronic condition that leaves people being someone else. Julianne Moore delivers a wonderfully restrained interpretation that holds the entire movie. Alec Baldwin is not bad but goes almost unnoticed and I think I can not expect more from Kristen Stewart whose character was for better interpretation and she just stayed in the "good"; another young actress of the many out there today would have shone with Julianne.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2016-05-30T11:08:43Z
"All my life I've accumulated memories - they've become, in a way, my most precious possessions. The night I met my husband, the first time I held my textbook in my hands. Having children, making friends, traveling the world. Everything I accumulated in life, everything I've worked so hard for - now all that is being ripped away. As you can imagine, or as you know, this is hell. But it gets worse. Who can take us seriously when we are so far from who we once were? Our strange behavior and fumbled sentences change other's perception of us and our perception of ourselves. We become ridiculous, incapable, comic. But this is not who we are, this is our disease. And like any disease it has a cause, it has a progression, and it could have a cure. My greatest wish is that my children, our children - the next generation - do not have to face what I am facing. But for the time being, I'm still alive. I know I'm alive. I have people I love dearly. I have things I want to do with my life. I rail against myself for not being able to remember things - but I still have moments in the day of pure happiness and joy. And please do not think that I am suffering. I am not suffering. I am struggling. Struggling to be part of things, to stay connected to whom I was once. So, 'live in the moment' I tell myself. It's really all I can do, live in the moment. And not beat myself up too much... and not beat myself up too much for mastering the art of losing. One thing I will try to hold onto though is the memory of speaking here today. It will go, I know it will. It may be gone by tomorrow. But it means so much to be talking here, today, like my old ambitious self who was so fascinated by communication. Thank you for this opportunity. It means the world to me. Thank you."