I think the film show how it can be to suffering from dementia. Both for the ones who is suffering, and for the relatives who is standing around, and have lots of feelings between. The relatives is hurt in an other way, which can be difficult for outstanding to understand. Sometimes you get so frustrated, because the ones with dementia is changing in the way they act. In this film, John really trying to keep the personality of Iris. He is trying to understand her, to know her kind of "language" and to remind her of herself as she was, and what she was supposed to do. I think this perspective is really important, and we also see how the relatives, here John, don't always have the resources to handle the situation, as he wants to do. We see the frustrations, and how angry he gets. In the end she is moving to a nursing home. She seems to find it okay, and she seems to be happy there. It give John lots of peace in his heart. I think he should had had some support much earlier in the process. It is different how a person suffering from dementia are reacting, when they have to move. Normally, it is important to make the move to the nursing home soon as possible, because it isn't easy for a dementia to move. But here, it was luckily going easy and without pain. If think the film is going too quickly over the processes in the suffering. It is going very quickly, from where Iris experience, that she can't remember and till the dementia is taking over her life. I think we could use more details, and a longer review of the process. I know it is hard to get all the details and the real time-perspective in a film, but I think it is sad that we are going so quickly through the process. I think we miss many very important thinks in the suffering for dementia.
Review of Iris
