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Dr. Jeff Hersh: Breathe easy - all about lung function Health Watch: Health improvements you can make today that will pay off for a lifetime Community Blog: Three Modes of Being Aging Happens Inner Peace Column Inner Peace Blog Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » Obituaries Photos Videos Blogs Business Business Services NEWS NOW Calendar: Saturday, Feb. 21 ... Ashland man's killer sentenced to 25 years to life ... Calendar: Friday, Feb. 20 ... Calendar: Saturday, Feb. 21 ... Ashland man's killer sentenced to 25 years to life ... Calendar: Friday, Feb. 20 ... MOVIE REVIEW Moore's journey is moving in 'Still Alice' Comment By Chris Honoré for Revels DailyTidings.com By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Feb. 19, 2015 @ 12:01 am By Chris Honoré for Revels Posted Feb. 19, 2015 @ 12:01 am » Social News Still Alice, 99 min, Rated PG-13 Life is fragile, tenuous, and each day is a gamble. Until it isn’t. The idea that bad things happen to good people is an abstraction … and suddenly what we took for granted — another dawn, and all that follows — can no longer hold our weight, like fragile ice on a winter’s pond. “Still Alice” is about such a life and may be more truth than some viewers want to confront in a film, due in great part to a tour de force performance by Julianne Moore. She portrays Dr. Alice Howland, a professor of linguistics at Colombia University, married to John (Alec Baldwin), a research scientist. She is the mother of three lovely children (Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish). Alice accomplished, cherished by her family and colleagues, just 50, and relishing in every way this moment in her life. But ever so gradually she begins to notice small moments when her memory hits a speed bump and what was automatic — a word during a lecture, the destination of a morning run — eludes her. And so begins a cruel and insidious journey, one in which all that she is, all that she has become, begins to abandon her. With John, she visits a neurologist who confirms that she has familial early onset Alzheimer’s disease. It’s a betrayal of her mind that is unexpected and will be, with unyielding certainty, catastrophic; like a flower in full bloom, every pedal vibrant with life, she begins to close ever so slowly. What is so insidious, so tragic, is that Alice — bright, scholarly, educated, loving — is told in detail what awaits her, the path that stretches before her detailed, like a photograph of familiar colors and images left out in the sunshine that slowly begins to fade. The irony of the film is its title: “Still Alice.” From the moment of her diagnosis, when she is told that the disease she has is very rare and also genetic (it’s possible that the gene she inherited came from her father, an alcoholic, and she may have passed it on to her children), Alice is no longer still Alice. She is now that person who struggles to find the courage and grace to face each day, to suffer each moment of forgetfulness, clinging to any remnant of who she was and wishes she still could be. Although this subject matter is not unique (recall “The Notebook”), what gives “Still Alice” its deeply human essence is the resonating performance by Moore (nominated for an Oscar as best actress). She is remarkable and restrained and finally a broken mirror. The camera lingers on her in tight, intimate shots, her every feature conveying the hope and sheer terror and brief moments of panic and lucidity that are now her life’s experiences. Moore is astonishing. She is just so good. As is the film, which is never gratuitous or maudlin. Do the filmmakers flinch? Of course. It’s just too hard. Yet when we leave the theater and look around and remember to breathe, we know that we have been given one more day. A gift. As well as a thoughtful and moving story to ponder. 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