Wit Movie Analysis

Death is inevitable. Everything that lives must eventually face death. There are two certainties and guarantees in the passage of life. The indubitable is the birth of an individual and death of the individual. The end of life for an individual is perceived as an enemy to humanity and a horrid event the individual and family are encountering. The pronouncement of the death is an afflictive and gut wrenching pain for the caregiver as well as the family. While dying can be considered a joyous occasion for the person dying, the thought of death is faced with uncertainty and fear. The dying often experience grief. Although the dying is experiencing grief, the semblance is not the same as the gut wrenching pain the caregiver will understand. The …show more content…
The movie evoked an awareness of the grief. An emotion I felt as if I had overcame came rushing back and caused an uncontrollable flow of tears. Those tears informed me, that I was not over the death of my mentor and I need to deal with those emotions. Vivian Bearing had stage four cancer like my mentor and the emotions I felt when she died were the emotions, I experienced while watching the movie. The movie was challenging as a result of what I experienced over a year ago, the movie enabled me to receive another outlook of person who is dying and has made peace with death. While Vivian transitioned alone without family and friends around, my mentor transitioned with family and friends. Perhaps Vivian was so focused on her career she avoided establishing any relationships with people. She might have thought establishing relationships would deter her from achieving her …show more content…
Posner and other the medical personnel lacked interpersonal skills. The staff with the exception of the Susie treated Dr. Bearing as if she was a test subject rather than a human beings they lost sight of the reason they stated practicing and started seeing death as the enemy. Death becomes an enemy to be conquered and vanquished (Miller-McLemore pg. 7). This very thought processed caused her medical staff to ignore and look the other way when the experimental drug was harming Dr. Bearing and not helping to cure her ovarian cancer. Those doctors were obliterate to reason they became physicians. They neglect to treat Dr. Bearing as if she was their highest priority and to do no harm. Dr. Kelekian caused Dr. Bearing harm in the name of medicine because she was strong according to his definition and interpretation of the word strong. The movie lacked what Dr. Ira Byock describes as doctoring, “Real doctoring involves commitment, loving intention, full attention, and a willingness to listen with one’s heart open, despite empathy’s emotions toll (Anderson & Speerstra pg. xi). The medical doctors in Wit lacked this characteristic in the movie. This reality of this film was displayed cinematically in the movie Lars and the Real Girl than in