Tuesday, February 19, 2008
SLIPPING AWAY
Today's movie was
It is the Alzheimer's movie with Julie Christie who is wonderful.
There are a lot of dangers in making and watching a film like this.
It can get too clinical. It can be too scary. It could be melodrama.
It seems to me that Sarah Polley, who made the film, avoids all three.
Yet it is a hard picture to watch.
At my age, one cannot help but project personal fears onto the film as well as the realization that separation will come for one of the coupled for whatever reason.
One will go "away from" him or her.
There is no humor in this film. The tension is broken with a lot of cutting away and playing with time.
Also, there is no rush.
Time is given to see what is happening and to comprehend it emotionally—for the people in the film and the audience to adjust to inevitability.
It is a simple story based on a short story by Alice Munroe.
I liked it but not in an 'enjoying it' way.
I will give it a 4 out of Netflix5.
