What movie character do you identify with most?
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. . .here are my thoughts.
What movie character do you identify with most?
I recently watched Anthony Hopkins’ Oscar winning role as the male lead in The Father. It was a well-deserved accolade! Viewing its trailer just prior to the feature presentation, I was befuddled. It seemed like the simple story of an older fella spiraling into dementia. How did it earn an Oscar nomination for Best Picture? The answer came pretty quick. The film cleverly puts the viewer squarely in the mind of Hopkins’ character: time jumps, character switches, location changes, repeating scenes, etc. As a viewer, experiencing the confusing world his brain creates, you can’t help but identify with the old man. One comes to realize the reward for avoiding a relatively early death from cancer or heart disease is the virtual certainty of mental degradation late in life. The film’s progression reminds me of a vivid dream or nightmare that seems perfectly reasonable while you’re asleep. Once you wake to rehash what you can remember, however, you can’t fathom how your slumbering mind couldn’t recognize the impossibility of the ridiculous events. The unfortunate difference, of course, is that sufferers of dementia are not afforded the luxury of awakening from their progressive nightmare.
Dementia is terrible. Watching some Aunts and uncles go through it is terrible. I think it is harder on the family. One of my favorite characters and movies was League of Their Own. These woman took the place of the men’s baseball league during WWII. True story and I love how they paved the way for woman sports (not shown in the movie but they did). Over my career I would hope that I left an impression and paved the way for woman in the business world.
Those ladies may have started it, but Title IX, decades later, really allowed woman’s athletics to excel.
Dementia is frightening. I have never seen this movie. I could relate as I have friends who, I believe, are beginning with that nightmare. I try to talk as we did before but it’s not easy. The grasping for words is horrible. Forgetting what everything is called or names I makes for a difficult conversation. The frightening thing is I can usually make sense of the jumbled thoughts.
I can also relate to Meemaw in Young Sheldon Young Sheldon is the spin-off of The Big Bank Theory. Sheldon is on the Spectrum. He has Asbergers. When he has conversations with his grandmother who he calls Meemaw it reminds me and my grandson. Jake is on the spectrum and we are buddies. He is now 17 and around 6’ and 250 lbs. but our conversations are similar. I love my buddy.
I thought Young Sheldon would be terrible when it was first announced. Luckily I was quite wrong.