STILL ALICE读后感

作者：Lisa Genova

Neuroscientist and debut novelist Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's—she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard, living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband, John, arguing about the usual (making quality time together, their daughter's move to L.A.) when the first symptoms of Alzheimer's begin to emerge. First, Alice can't find her Blackberry, then she becomes hopelessly disoriented in her own town. Alice is shocked to be diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's (she had suspected a brain tumor or menopause), after which her life begins steadily to unravel. She loses track of rooms in her home, resigns from Harvard and eventually cannot recognize her own children. The brutal facts of Alzheimer's are heartbreaking, and it's impossible not to feel for Alice and her loved ones, but Genova's prose style is clumsy and her dialogue heavy-handed. This novel will appeal to those dealing with the disease and may prove helpful, but beyond the heartbreaking record of illness there's little here to remember.

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To courage and love
2019.01.13
今天我的中学老师去世了。
他患老年痴呆症多年，前两年同学聚会的照片上他在人群中笑着，表情温和。自初中毕业就没再见过霍老师了，没想到此生再也没有机会了。霍老师把我们这些十几岁的孩子从泥里拔出来，指到一条康庄大道上。至今想起每日的早训和晚训，老师的音容笑貌清晰如昨。
想到之前看的《Still Alice》的电影，找出当时写的影评，关乎勇关乎爱，以寄托对老师的思念。
R.I.P
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Still Alice, still Glatzer
子皿 2015.08.10
The practice of letting go and mastering the art of losing are the most difficult lesson to learn in one’s life. We always have deadlines to meet and dreams to fulfill, until one day we have to slowdown and look at this world from a different perspective.
Alice found herself getting lost in her own world: not remembering the way home;  not knowing what she was going to say; forgetting that she need a toilet and wet her clothes like a baby. She felt like she was drowning: the more she struggles, the faster she sinks. Dementia  is such a disease that you eventually imprisoned by your own body. Alice thought of killing herself, but she could not remember what was the next step while she was  doing that.
shows how detrimental dementia is to a patient and her family. It is a desperate and lonely journey, Alice have to walk the road by herself even when she was accompanied by loved ones. Everyone in the family had their own fear, and they all need to take the ordeal of being . Luckily, courage and love united the family, it was the best medicine to get everybody through the darkest and coldest night of their life.
I remember reading Tuesday with Morrie, it demonstrate perfectly how to walk the road of life. You can always chose, chose to be happy, practice gratitude for what you still hold in your hand, chose to follow your heart, chose to spend quality time with the people you care and love.
Richard Glatzer, co-writer and director of Still Alice, after battling ALS for four years, died on 11 Mar 2015. Aged 63. Shortly before he took on the project of Still Alice in 2011, Glatzer was diagnosed with ALS, and his condition rapidly deteriorated. Glatzer and Alice dance to the same tune of life.His husband Wash Westmoreland said: It can be very, very tough, and making the film and now watching the film, I myself am inspired to do better, to serve better, to love better, to be more emotionally present-no matter how tough the days can be.
Still Alice, still Glatzer.