Review- Iris
The Film Iris I about a writer there gets Alzheimer's disease. Iris is a sad and frustrating film, not least because it can't get out from under its own sadness and frustration. But the film renders this terrible loss with clichés rather than insights. It's difficult not to respond to the tear-jerking devices (perhaps especially if you've any experience with Alzheimer's patients), but it's also difficult not to see them as devices. While the film does include a lovey-dovey scene or two, it's more interested in the more exciting moments, the ways Iris makes John's life rather hellish, before and after the disease. True as this may have been, this choice of emphasis doesn't give the film much time to consider her work or thinking, supposedly key aspects of her appeal to John and everyone else.
I think the film give us a great chance to see how it is to have a Alzheimer's disease and how the relatives focus on the life story of a dementia patient.
The Film Iris I about a writer there gets Alzheimer's disease. Iris is a sad and frustrating film, not least because it can't get out from under its own sadness and frustration. But the film renders this terrible loss with clichés rather than insights. It's difficult not to respond to the tear-jerking devices (perhaps especially if you've any experience with Alzheimer's patients), but it's also difficult not to see them as devices. While the film does include a lovey-dovey scene or two, it's more interested in the more exciting moments, the ways Iris makes John's life rather hellish, before and after the disease. True as this may have been, this choice of emphasis doesn't give the film much time to consider her work or thinking, supposedly key aspects of her appeal to John and everyone else.
I think the film give us a great chance to see how it is to have a Alzheimer's disease and how the relatives focus on the life story of a dementia patient.