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Still Alice

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Still Alice	comment	Still Alice is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, based on the bestselling 2007 novel of the same name written by Lisa Genova. It stars Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart.Dr. Alice Howland (Moore) is a renowned professor of linguistics at Columbia University, mother to three adult children, and wife to Dr. John Howland (Baldwin), a prominent physician. As she begins having lapses in memory, she undergoes testing and learns that she has early-onset Alzheimer's disease. She then struggles to cope with her failing memory, which begins to exert a strain on her family.Moore's performance, the most commonly cited aspect of the film's critical acclaim, won her the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress.
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Still Alice / int_117d2e1f	type	Fauxshadowing
Still Alice / int_117d2e1f	comment	Fauxshadowing: The film invests considerable time in setting us up for Alice to kill herself once the disease has progressed beyond a certain point. However, her attempt fails when she spills the pills on the floor and can't remember what they're for.
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Still Alice / int_1a09b4f9	type	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
Still Alice / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Anna and Lydia clash constantly in how to handle Alice's disease, sometimes becoming openly hostile.
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Still Alice / int_1a3b588c	type	Suicide Is Shameful
Still Alice / int_1a3b588c	comment	Suicide Is Shameful: A big part of the plot is Alice both bargaining with "how far" she can allow herself to go before she should rather kill herself and how big of a taboo suicide is. Ultimately she ends up in a vegetative state and one of her last conscious decisions is a failed suicide attempt, which she had always contemplated but repeatedly put off while she was lucid..
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Still Alice / int_326a740c	type	Scatterbrained Senior
Still Alice / int_326a740c	comment	Scatterbrained Senior: The movie is about Alzheimer's. In Alice's case, it was well before actual senior age, sadly. She is a very good-looking middle-aged woman but gets lost when she goes outside and later can't remember where the bathroom is in her own house.
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Still Alice / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Still Alice / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: This is the message of Alice's speech at the Alzheimer's Society.
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Still Alice / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Still Alice / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Alice's condition is irreversible and she's now almost unable to speak, but Alice and Lydia do share possibly one of their last meaningful moments together and Alice's final word in the movie is 'love'. Under the circumstances, it's about as happy as you could possibly hope for.
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Still Alice / int_432e2c83	type	Caretaker Reversal
Still Alice / int_432e2c83	comment	Caretaker Reversal: Alice's youngest daughter ends up taking care of her in the end.
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Still Alice / int_4aafd3c8	type	Fling a Light into the Future
Still Alice / int_4aafd3c8	comment	Fling a Light into the Future: Soon after her diagnosis, Alice records a video allowing her to find a bottle of pills to take once she's advanced too far. She ends up not taking it.
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Still Alice / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
Still Alice / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: Alice visits an elderly care facility not long after she's first diagnosed, completely believably saying that she's looking on behalf of a parent.
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Still Alice / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Still Alice / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: There's a time-skip between a scene where Alice panics having lost her phone because of the importance of her self-made memory test and the phone being found one month later, although Alice only remembers looking for it the night before.
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Still Alice / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Still Alice / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: John feels he's failed Alice by leaving Lydia to look after her while he moves cities for work, and can't stop himself from weeping as she reassures him that she can take care of Alice.
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Still Alice / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Still Alice / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Subverted. Alice sets up a plan to make sure she commits suicide when her Alzheimer's becomes so progressed she cannot remember even basic questions like where she lives. She stashes a pill bottle in the back of her drawer, and leaves a reminder on her phone that directs her to a video she pre-recorded with instructions on how to overdose. It fails.
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Still Alice / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
Still Alice / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: In one scene, Alice wets her pants because she can no longer remember where the bathroom is in her own home.
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Still Alice / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Still Alice / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License – Medicine: Alice's Alzheimer's progresses much more rapidly than happens in reality, even in its early-onset form. When she experiences her first very minor symptoms, her daughter is visibly pregnant, by the time her daughter gives birth, Alice can barely speak and is incapable of taking basic care of herself.
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Still Alice / int_97aaa7f3	type	In the Blood
Still Alice / int_97aaa7f3	comment	In the Blood: Alice's type of Alzheimer's disease is hereditary. If her kids have the same gene, they will get the same type. Her eldest daughter gets tested and finds out that she has a 100% chance of someday getting Alzheimer's; she just has to sit and wait for a decade or two. Her son tested negative for Alzheimer's. And it's not known if Lydia tested positive or negative for Alzheimer's as she does not want to know the results.
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Still Alice / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Still Alice / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Alice is a redhead and very outspoken. She begins to lose that as the disease progresses, but still has some moments, such as when Lydia suggests some alterations to her speech, given that it took her a very long time to write it with her accelerating condition.
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Still Alice / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Still Alice / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: An extremely sad example when Alice first tells John about seeing a neurologist and her initial fears.
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Still Alice / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Still Alice / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: John and Alice, the former of whom does everything he can to support his increasingly frail wife.
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Still Alice / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
Still Alice / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Near the end of the film, Alice tries to swallow an entire bottle of pills. However, the sudden arrival of her caretaker causes her to drop the pills all over the floor.
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Still Alice / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
Still Alice / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: A tragic example. Near the end, Alice and John are eating ice-cream near Columbia University. The disease is noticeably progressed, but Alice recalls someone tell her she used to teach there and says, "I used to be smart."
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Still Alice / int_d9fe8277	type	I'm Standing Right Here
Still Alice / int_d9fe8277	comment	I'm Standing Right Here: Part of Alice's increasing alienation includes her family suddenly (from her perspective, it actually takes quite a bit of time) treating her as if her opinions no longer matter, and they begin to talk about her instead of at her.
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Still Alice / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Still Alice / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Alice eventually falls over this as her memory fails, breaking down as she informs John and even setting a plan for her future self to commit suicide when enough of her memory is lost.
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Still Alice / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Still Alice / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: How Alice begins to realize that something is wrong with her. In the middle of a speech, she tries to find the right word for what she's describing, and takes several moments before settling on "word stock." Only on the ride home does she realize the word she was reaching for at the time: "lexicon."
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Still Alice / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Still Alice / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: At the end of the film, John leaves for a lucrative job offer at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in order to secure financial security for himself and Alice. However, he does have plans to move Alice to Minnesota with him.
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Still Alice / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Still Alice / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Alice's intelligence is shown by what words she uses playing Words with Friends with her daughter, like "document" and "hadji." Part of her daily memory self-tests also involve her trying to remember long words. Justified because she is a linguistics professor. It also shows the progress of her condition when she puts down "tone" for 5 points despite having decent letters. Eventually, her daughter stops playing with her.
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Still Alice / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Still Alice / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Apple, Pinkberry, and Words with Friends get extensive screentime. It's especially noticeable in the scene where Alice eats at Pinkberry the first time, as the bowl is turned so as to perfectly display the logo to the camera.
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