Away from Her |
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2007 - Canada
Director Sarah Polley Starring |
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It started about 20 minutes into the film and only for a few brief moments did I stop sobbing until well after the credits rolled. Not all of this can be explained as Polley’s masterful adaptation or direction: a film about Alzheimer’s is likely to be disturbing and heartbreaking even under the worst of circumstances. It is to Polley’s credit that she kept things simple: allowed the condition and her subject’s deterioration to speak for themselves and her excellent cast to explore the emotional terrain freely. Only the aspect of sacrifice as it manifests itself in the last half hour struck me as fairly awkward and poorly reasoned in an otherwise authentic, natural inexorable march into the certain future. The problem seems to arise when writer and adapter feel a need to impose a conventional plot upon a condition which has no reason, no logical progression, no rules or order. It would be better served with less structure propping it up, as the film was more successful in achieving in the first hour or so. Simply: this is how it is; this is how we cope.
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