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- 故事★★
- 演技★★★
- 執行★★
- 音樂★
- 新意★★
疾病的美好尊嚴表象
遲來的肯定，Julianne Moore今年行運，而我內心卻百感交感。
打從接觸她的第一部片《愛情的盡頭》（The End of the Affair, 1999）
以來，當年那種膚白淨透無盡等待，敵軍空襲命在旦夕，她不離不棄守著家園，相信他一定會歸來。即便現下看來，真是狗血灑盡，那個獨立佇立炮火危樓倒塌中的女孩，無疑成為心中美麗的驚嘆號。之後起起浮浮的演藝人生，她始終沒能走紅，卻也來者不拒，什麼片都接。（想想《超急情聖》（Don Jon, 2013）
對她的喜歡自然不在話下，而本影后大滿貫更是令人相信，她能被因看見終將大鳴大放。看完電影，我卻遲疑了。
無力軟弱欠缺張力，處處留情，讓疾病患者保留尊嚴我懂，但身患阿茲默症漸失記憶與生活自理能力的語言學家Alice（Julianne Moore飾），一場在家中失措找不到廁所而尿溼褲子，是剪接來的。而每個場景裡，除了不帶妝頭髮永遠是梳理完整，甚至連打扮都有一定水準。刻意避開患者無法自理生活的真實，而只是輕描淡寫帶過。如此矯情，就算Julianne Moore演出再自然，我也看不下去，我的大美女好可惜啊～
空氣
此外，網友們提到演出患者眷屬的角色們，雞肋般地演出，無足輕重，張力軟弱令人無言以對。唯獨演出次女Lydia的Kristen Stewart，算是值得期待。
愛深責切，不外如此。
最後附上Alice在阿茲海默症協會發表演說的全文，特別令人喜愛的是詞是「The art of losing」，說得好：
Good morning, it’s an honor to be here.
The poet Elizabeth Bishop once wrote:
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. So many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their lost is no disaster.
I am not a poet. I am a person living with early onset Alzheimer’s, and as that person I find myself learning the art of losing every day. Losing my bearings, losing objects, losing sleep, but mostly losing memories.
(Then her speech papers fell on the ground)
Em, I think I will try to forget that just happened.
(She joked after picking up the papers)
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 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 perceptions of us and our perceptions 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 a part of things, to stay connected to who I once was.
So living in the moment I tell myself.
It’s really all I can do. Live in the moment, and not beat myself up too much for mastering the art of losing.
One thing I will try to hold on to 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!
Alice’s speech at the Alzheimer’s Association
Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Julianne Moore | ||
 | Kate Bosworth | ||
 | Shane McRae | ||
 | Hunter Parrish | ||
 | Alec Baldwin | ||
 | Seth Gilliam |
Frederic Johnson
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 | Kristen Stewart | ||
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