Still Alice Techniques

Still Alice
Dying is not the conclusion to anyone’s story. We will never be done exploring the wonder of who we are. While following along on Alice’s journey in the movie “Still Alice,” we become a part of an experience through a unique style the movie is made in, the emergence of all forms of love within Alice’s family, and the struggle Alice endures to keep her youth and the desire to die gracefully. Not everyone’s life may be effected by Alzheimer’s disease, but the people who are met with such a terrifying diagnosis will forever be changed. We watch as Alice struggles through the progression of her disease and how her family and friends react. This is a movie that requires critical thinking and really does bring into perspective how important
The style of the movie consisted of short clips strung together in chronological order as Alice’s memory starts to fade. The audience is suddenly met with a slightly hazed memory of Alice and her family that had passed away before she could even really know them. We know by a conversation with Alice’s husband throughout the movie that both he and the children never got a chance to meet her sister and mother. Switches from the present moment to candy laced daydreams leave the audience confused and curious as to what is coming next. The scenes are relatively short and none seem to follow in short time periods directly after one another. One second we are watching Alice struggle to find her phone and the next scene we watch her phone being pulled out of the freezer… a whole month later. It is almost as if the audience is being pulled along with Alice’s journey. We receive just a small taste as to what it must feel like to slowly lose your memory and who you were as a person. Much like Alice, we have to think and pay more attention through each scene of the movie so that we can figure out when and where everything is taking place. The scenes end like sudden fragments up until the very end, leaving the audience wondering what was supposed to be