An element of this scene that people overlook is not only the meaning of the monologues content, it the fact that for the first time in a while, somebody was speaking to Alice using deep and beautiful language she always adored instead of talking to her like a child so that she could understand. Stewart expresses language in its raw form, not simplified and not as if Alice is too far gone to understand or appreciate it. And it reaches Alice deeper than anything that has been said to her in some time.
The way Kristen says "cause nothing is lost forever" kills me because we know it has a double meaning and she's thinking of the love between her and her mother when she says it. Her expression was perfect.
This was the most heart wrenching scene of the movie. I remember sitting in the theater during this scene, and there was pure silence after. Julianne was so compelling in this role. You can just feel Alice drifting away, but what keeps her moving is love. Love is ultimately all she has left to remember and feel.
Agreed. And your comment made me want to cry. This was probably the most heart-wrenching scene of the movie, and Julianne and Kristen were compelling. And the last two sentences that you typed. Damn. I'm speechless. That's so true though.
I remember some people in the theater were a bit shocked that this was how the movie ended. I don't see how else it could've, there is no happy ending with Alzheimer's.
+MediaLover194 Yeah! that's the point, I mean do they prefer? the suicide? This ending was amazing. because it talks about love and how much transcendent it is.
This scene was my emotional undoing.......the grunted response from Alice brought me back immediately to the days caring for my own mother with Alzheimers, telling her I loved her, and her trying to tell me the same.
It reminded me of an old woman that was at the retirement home I worked at. She had her husband, who took care of her with endless patience and love and I remember how she would always be smiling. She could hardly speak at all when the time came for her to go to heaven....
A few years back, I had failed out of nursing school and I made a decision to become a psychology major. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life besides becoming a nurse. I took a class called Dementia Awareness and Best Practices for Care because I needed to pick an elective. We watched this movie in class and it brought tears to my eyes. This movie and the class as a whole inspired me to work in dementia care. Five years later, I’m a college graduate and I got a job in a nursing home as a recreational therapist for memory impaired residents. I love what I do and I’m happier now than I ever was in nursing school ☺️
+Deivyson Almeida Yeah, Kristen Stewart is a wonderful actress but sadly a lot of her reputation was ruined after she made the shit of a franchise of Twilight. But im glad to see that filmmakers see how capable she is and I hope to see her in better movies
I totally agree. The monologue is from Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Amazing piece of writing and brilliantly performed. Beautiful performance within a performance. Great film.
“I dreamed we were there. The plane left the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it thread-bare as old cheesecloth, and that was frightening… But I saw something only I could see, because of my astonishing ability to see such things: Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who had perished, from famine, from war, from the plague, and they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles and formed a web, a great net of souls, and the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules, of the stuff of ozone, and the outer rim absorbed them, and was repaired. Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that’s so.” -Tony Kushner
This scene is disturbing and sad at the same time. While watching it and I couldn't help but look back at how this character was very successful and smart and was reduced to this. Definently a film you have to watch.
I highly agree. That was one of the saddest elements to the movie, to see her suffering from the realization that she will no longer live how she did in her past life, where all of her accomplishments, and goals she acheived and worked hard for, will lead her to Alzheimer's. Makes me truly, truly sad. 😢
The part where she said "I wish I had cancer instead"... that part really makes you think how totally devastating this disease with no cure or treatment really is....😓😓😓😓😓
Yeah and she did such an accurate portrayal of it that it was honestly triggering. The stuttering and soundsand the look on her face and the embarrassment when she realizes she’s done something ‘wrong’. It’s such a cruel to disease… for the person and everyone else who loves them
This is so beautiful and touching scene, especially the last word ‘love’. Even at her final phase, not remembering almost anything, she still does remember the strongest and most humane emotion, one that can cross space and time but still will be felt, Love.
No movie scene has ever had me in tears the way this one did- "Nothing's lost forever". This is the ultimate scope of the Mortal journey of a soul: The ego and the memories can be lost, but the impressions left while on our journey through this earth are carved forever in an unreachable place that can't be touched by any illness - We can forget what we saw, but we will never forget what we felt.
I'm a caregiver and I work in a home with Alzheimer's residents one resident in particular and everytime I talk to her this is the exact response I get and it breaks my heart all the time because I know she knows what I'm saying and she can't find the words to express how she feels back to me.
Most definitely. I found myself really loving how she just dove in here. Julianne and Alec were excellent here, too. An award well deserved for Julianne. Finally.
She acts the same as in twilight. If she can’t break out of “character” (quotes because there’s no character since she can’t act) then she can’t act. Lol 😂
This scene brings back to the days i helped my mother showered and everything (not an easy things to do because there were times she rejected me helping her and cursed me all the way while i was helping her), then when she was already in her clean clothes and all comfortable, she always looked at me fondly, she didnt say a thing. Just stare at me like she wanted to say something but she couldn’t. That was how she communicate, when she couldnt say anything, her eyes said everything..
i remember the last few days my nan still lived at home, she has severe dementia and was refusing to take her medication. i remember sitting there trying to get her to take it. her and my stepgrandad ended up in hospital that night, and i had never felt so hopeless. she doesn't remember me anymore, but i hope she knows i love her.
What a powerful film. I was drawn into it, it began slowly then a feeling of being able to identify with the entire story became evident. The last scene left me as a basket case of sobbing and tears but an understanding of what love is about. Excellent film beautiful music.
This is the first scene that I've ever watched. The way the daughter was speaking to her mother was beautiful, and it reminded me how when I used to visit my granddaddy every day. I'd speak to him, and he mumbled very few words, so calmly while looking into my eyes. I could feel a small but strong connection. He passed last year, and I miss him so much. I have to watch!
I don't care what anyone says, in my opinion, I believe that there was no other way that this ending could have been any better than it already is. This scene gives me chills as well as many tears. One of the most emotional scenes I have ever witnessed in a movie. This scene just gives me so much to hold onto. I love it so much. Both actresses are both beautiful inside and outside for portraying such incredible roles into a bond of stronger love that continues to grow throughout the movie into the best relationship in the movie. It is so incredibly heartbreaking while simultaneously heartwarming. Just seeing how they act, and look into each others eyes, already showing the powerful love that they have for each other, and then to hear this woman with Alzheimer's still have so much intelligence after continuing with the disease just lets you know that she is "Still Alice." And that last quote just gets me so much. "It was about love." And the way that it synchronizes with the beautifully sad music, and the flashback to the mother and daughter on the beach walking away, as if knowing the movie will end, as well as her death may be approaching, but their love for each other will forever continue to live on no matter what. 💔💕❤💜😢😢👩👧
@@then33k4 We all have our downs. And I deeply believe that, deep down, we need it. Now, love is everywhere. And I am not only talking about relationship you could have with your parents, lover((s) ;), or friends. I am talking about a smile from a stranger, sunsets, dogs joyfully playing in a park, take time to enjoy an activity your like (like singing, watching a movie, ... ), ...
i used to think that Kristen was a bad actress , but when i saw this little scene, it caught me and after a moment a realized i was hooked with her reading. Jullanne is a great actress, so glad to see her getting all this awards and respect from people who know and enjoy movies.
My grandmother had AD and the last time I saw her she spoke incoherently but yet was able to call me by the childhood pet name she had given me. Our souls were connected for ever more.
My father had early onset Alzheimer’s. He went from successful executive and provider to this state when I left home. I wish I had been more compassionate rather than angry at the fact that his mind was gone and the difficulty of living with him. 40 years later I still regret it.
1:28 "... 'cause nothing's lost forever" and that look, tho. Such a touching scene. Kristen performance was wonderful, and Julianne; wow. Great actors, great script, great movie..
For in the end it is not the memories, but the imprints of those memories that remain in us - indelible marks of time that transcend the waters of the torrential frugality of this river. (Balam Acab) Never a movie scene has made cried more - Absolutely beautiful.
I have thought of Kristen Stewart as a good actress but this scene is just…. She’s amazing. This scene breaks me every time as someone who had a loved one with Alzheimer’s. The way she looks at her gauging if she’s understanding and how she should keep going. Just masterful and obviously Julianne killed it
I passed through a similar experience with my mother. It's something that marks U 4 life. Can't erase from my mind - after years - one of her last facial expressions: a happy, smiling baby but in an adult severely incapacitated body.
I am very sorry to hear that. I believe that deep in her mind, her love for you has never been erased. Life is sometimes cruel but you must carry on to keep your precious memories of her alive.
when i finished watching this movie i sat there in stunned silence for about 30 sec and then sobbed for 3 minutes straight. still not sure why. i was just so deeply heartbroken, and moved, and strangely gladdened.
There is not a day that goes by where I don't appreciate watching this movie to appreciate my mother who succumbed to this and still remembered she loved her sons.
She's a god-awful actress. When I saw this with friends we cringed. She is acting with a heavyweight and is so self-conscious and not "IN THE MOMENT" it's painful to watch. Why they didn't give this to the other sister is beyond me,
When my grandfather died, I didn't shed a tear. You see, I wasn't close to him, although I wish I were. Then I watched this movie with my best friend - we have this thing of not crying, of concealing our feelings, almost like a game - and I couldn't stop crying. It's too powerful, too realistic. I had to lie to my mother, I said that the movie was awful when she asked me about it, but only because I don't want her to feel sad. She would - she was the only one who cried during his funeral, even though she saw the shell of his former self everyday. She would be crushed.
I support you Davi Galino, the film is really very powerful, do not have to not cry, who passed for sad moments like this knows that impossible not to be moved , is real of all, is life in our lives.
It has been a while sice I watcher a movie as powerful as Still Alice, the final scene has really gotten to me, it might have been Alice joining her sister in the afterlife or perhaps she and her mom as a symbol of mother-daughter love...It's funny how in the beginning of the movie, Alice and her daughter were written to be some sort of antipodes, in the way they perceived life and futur, and it was such an emotionnal expérience to witness their bond getting stonger during the movie and watching their love towards each other till the end.
Kristen's performance here is STAGGERING. It's someone reciting text that means the world to them, and trying with all their ability to make the person they're reading believe in it too (or at least acknowledge it). It's an example of what I find so moving about performance. The commitment to making a stranger feel what the actor feels. In this case, it's a daughter trying to reach the emotional core of her mother through art that touches her own. Monumental ending to this movie. Both of those women are amazing here.
Staggeringly BAD - She's a god-awful actress. When I saw this with friends we cringed. She is acting with a heavyweight and is so self-conscious and not "IN THE MOMENT" it's painful to watch. Why they didn't give this to the other sister is beyond me.
All is love dear ones, everything else is imagined confusion - Byron Katie. This quote has saved me many times xxxx I love this scene, even though it is gut wrenchingly sad and beautiful
I"m not a fan or not NOT a fan of Kristin Stewart. But, this movie. Especially this scene. Kristin delivers . I saw this movie in 2014-2015. When it came out. I remember this scene to this day. I mean Julienne, of course. But, the question here is Kristin. And, Kristin delivered this scene so wonderfully that I have remembered the emotional impact of this final scene for the past 6 years. Just watching this 3 minutes brings me to tears. There is no question Kristin Stewart is a good actress. She is a great actress. This alone shows what she can do. It awakened me to her potential. This was a touching scene and movie in which there were two standout performances. Obviously Julienne. But Kristin's performance IMO was stellar and made me see her in a new way. This scene is one of, if not her best acting and the emotional impact of this final scene would have been lost if she wasn't able to adequately convey the message of love to her mom. It is divine.
A troubled mind that has lost almost all memory and ability to interpret, yet it could never forget the feeling of love. Alice is not commenting on the monologue here, she's describing her daughter caring about her, taking her seriously and reading her long, difficult speeches as she was used to. She's describing what she's seeing; the loving face of her daughter, being passionate about what she loves. A mother's mind never stops revolving around her children. And she's taken over by love. Magnificent performances of Moore and Stewart.
Oh my God, this had me in tears. Is this what I have to be prepared for? When my dad, who is 66 years old, has advanced Alzheimer's and is severely ill will no longer be able to speak when he gets worse and worse? So heart-wrenching... :( :(
Mosse Matters, you were not the only person who cried through this film. My stepmother's youngest daughter and son-in-law cried too. I bought the film as a Christmas 🎁 meaning present. They are with me, Julianne Moore worked hard to finally win the Oscar and I saw the film in the theaters telling the employees that "Julianne Moore has tonight in the bag".
Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease, unfortunately no 'cure' will be able to bring back neurones and thus memories lost. We can only hope it prevents further loss and stopping the disease progressing but reversing it I'm afraid is near impossible.
Matthew Smollen Your brain is made up of interconnected neurons (nerves) in a very complex structure. Neurodegenerative means these connections and nerves die.
Kristen was very well cast for this, kuddos for her. Award performance by Julianne too. Daamn. This scene hit me very hard. LOVE was what was going on between those two. :) Just fantastic.
This scene was interesting, in another scene she confuses Lydia for her Sister, the way that she knew the passage was about Love reflected the way Alice kept on her most treasured memories particularly those of her Sister's whom she likely had a very close relationship with and Lydia reminded her of it.
+Samuel Benitez The passage wasn't about love, not exactly. It was about letting go, and understand that nothing is lost forever, though knowing that you have to go through the painful progress of missing what you have lost, despite needing to dream ahead. Alice replied love because she wasnt in a coherent state, but was very right, because Lydia was reading that passage to her to tell her she can let go and nothing is lost forever because she loves her thus the passage was about lydia's love for her mother.
Believe it or not the scene that really got to me was the casual one right before this, when the father and daughter are talking about her right in front of her like she's not there and her hair was all disheveled. This beautiful, strong, amazing woman was reduced to how we treat little children, and her family was doing everything in their power short of completely abandoning her to avoid confronting and watching this pain.
The way Alice looked at Lydia is the way my mom (who is now in a home, with late stage EOAD at 65) looks at my brother when he gets near her. She may no long talk or respond or recognise me nor my dad, but that soft, now dull, twinkle in her eyes when she recognises my brother is so heartwarming. And it's so well captured in this scene. Wonderful acting from the both of them. Absolutely heart breaking
I haven't seen the movie, I know what happens, but I think this ending is meaningful. Kristen's character read something beautiful and when she asked her mother about its meaning, the mother said love. And that last shot isn't meant to be reflecting on a time that use to be, but how things can *still* be, in spite of the challenges. Alice can still feel love, she can still love and her family can cherish the time they have left together. Even if her mind is going away, that doesn't mean the good times have to come to an end
Movie had me teary eyed most Ever, When my GREAT grandma passed away last month June 5th she died having Alzheimers but it didn’t deteriorate as bad as Alice did when she passed , I’ll always watch this movie n think of her💙❤️🩹💙
An element of this scene that people overlook is not only the meaning of the monologues content, it the fact that for the first time in a while, somebody was speaking to Alice using deep and beautiful language she always adored instead of talking to her like a child so that she could understand. Stewart expresses language in its raw form, not simplified and not as if Alice is too far gone to understand or appreciate it. And it reaches Alice deeper than anything that has been said to her in some time.
Wow yes amazing
The character’s name is Lydia. Alice’s youngest daughter
Nah brah all Alice could hear was crayons and ponies
@@dannyx498 😭
There was the longest silence in the cinema at the end of this film.
I can imagine, i was holding this knot on my throat after finish watching it on Netflix and let a cry, so no on cried at theater...?
I did.. and not ashamed of it!
chairmanmeow1973 I can imagine. What do you say to that?
What a beautiful approval for all who was involved in this project.
Because almost everyone knows someone who had this disease 😥
The way Kristen says "cause nothing is lost forever" kills me because we know it has a double meaning and she's thinking of the love between her and her mother when she says it. Her expression was perfect.
This was the most heart wrenching scene of the movie. I remember sitting in the theater during this scene, and there was pure silence after. Julianne was so compelling in this role. You can just feel Alice drifting away, but what keeps her moving is love. Love is ultimately all she has left to remember and feel.
Should I ask if I was the only one who shed a few tears watching this final scene?
Pheonix Hazazel
Definitely not. I know I teared up when I saw it
Agreed. And your comment made me want to cry. This was probably the most heart-wrenching scene of the movie, and Julianne and Kristen were compelling. And the last two sentences that you typed. Damn. I'm speechless. That's so true though.
I remember some people in the theater were a bit shocked that this was how the movie ended. I don't see how else it could've, there is no happy ending with Alzheimer's.
+MediaLover194 Yeah! that's the point, I mean do they prefer? the suicide? This ending was amazing. because it talks about love and how much transcendent it is.
+MediaLover194 Exactly!
I was actually expecting that the suicide would be successful.
me too.
Agreed. 😢
This scene was my emotional undoing.......the grunted response from Alice brought me back immediately to the days caring for my own mother with Alzheimers, telling her I loved her, and her trying to tell me the same.
Lo lamento mucho! Te mando un abrazo grande 💚
Much love and hugs. I know your pain and am living it. Be well
@@dogfanatic4430 Never feel guilt from the relief and release of it.
Your mom was happy to have you. Still, it's heartbreaking.
It reminded me of an old woman that was at the retirement home I worked at. She had her husband, who took care of her with endless patience and love and I remember how she would always be smiling. She could hardly speak at all when the time came for her to go to heaven....
A few years back, I had failed out of nursing school and I made a decision to become a psychology major. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life besides becoming a nurse. I took a class called Dementia Awareness and Best Practices for Care because I needed to pick an elective. We watched this movie in class and it brought tears to my eyes. This movie and the class as a whole inspired me to work in dementia care. Five years later, I’m a college graduate and I got a job in a nursing home as a recreational therapist for memory impaired residents. I love what I do and I’m happier now than I ever was in nursing school ☺️
❤❤👍👍
Congrats from Brazil 💚🇧🇷
This monologue by Stewart proves that she´s a deep, natural, wonderful actress.
She was perfectly cast in this movie.
+Deivyson Almeida Yeah, Kristen Stewart is a wonderful actress but sadly a lot of her reputation was ruined after she made the shit of a franchise of Twilight. But im glad to see that filmmakers see how capable she is and I hope to see her in better movies
+Deivyson Almeida let's pretend that twilight series did not exist
I totally agree. The monologue is from Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Amazing piece of writing and brilliantly performed. Beautiful performance within a performance. Great film.
Kriten monotone speechmake me worry that she is sick too.
Meh - She's rough at best.
The smile Alice gives her daughter when she gets close is the strongest reaction to a disease that takes away so much. She loves her children.
“I dreamed we were there. The plane left the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it thread-bare as old cheesecloth, and that was frightening…
But I saw something only I could see, because of my astonishing ability to see such things:
Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who had perished, from famine, from war, from the plague, and they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles and formed a web, a great net of souls, and the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules, of the stuff of ozone, and the outer rim absorbed them, and was repaired.
Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.
At least I think that’s so.”
-Tony Kushner
Thank you so much...
+Jesús Quintero Thank you, man.
Jesús Q thank you, you are awesome:)
Thank you for posting the words.
Tony Kushner is a damn good writer, he worked extensively with Steven Spielberg.
This scene is disturbing and sad at the same time. While watching it and I couldn't help but look back at how this character was very successful and smart and was reduced to this. Definently a film you have to watch.
I highly agree. That was one of the saddest elements to the movie, to see her suffering from the realization that she will no longer live how she did in her past life, where all of her accomplishments, and goals she acheived and worked hard for, will lead her to Alzheimer's. Makes me truly, truly sad. 😢
I didn’t find it disturbing. It’s a reality I actually found it comforting that her daughter loved her so much and is staying with her through it all
She lost her job, but she didn't lose the love of her family. That's what was important to her in the end
The part where she said "I wish I had cancer instead"... that part really makes you think how totally devastating this disease with no cure or treatment really is....😓😓😓😓😓
i sobbed straight through half of this movie. there aren't words to describe how painful this is to watch and experience.
Yeah and she did such an accurate portrayal of it that it was honestly triggering. The stuttering and soundsand the look on her face and the embarrassment when she realizes she’s done something ‘wrong’. It’s such a cruel to disease… for the person and everyone else who loves them
This is so beautiful and touching scene, especially the last word ‘love’. Even at her final phase, not remembering almost anything, she still does remember the strongest and most humane emotion, one that can cross space and time but still will be felt, Love.
No movie scene has ever had me in tears the way this one did- "Nothing's lost forever". This is the ultimate scope of the Mortal journey of a soul: The ego and the memories can be lost, but the impressions left while on our journey through this earth are carved forever in an unreachable place that can't be touched by any illness - We can forget what we saw, but we will never forget what we felt.
Amen.
i cried so much watching this movie it was so good
Agreed, and so did I.
Me too. Especially at the end of her speech and the scene of her and her husband in the ice cream shop
This movie really changed my opinion of Stewart... I really liked her here... Moore is as flawless as always
Same €€
Kristen was also flawless like always :)
This to me is the most beautiful movie scene of the year... The film was amazing, and these two's acting is the most incredible thing.
"nothing is lost forever" to me signifies Lydia saying to Alice I still see you. you're still here and there's still hope. " that says a lot
I'm a caregiver and I work in a home with Alzheimer's residents one resident in particular and everytime I talk to her this is the exact response I get and it breaks my heart all the time because I know she knows what I'm saying and she can't find the words to express how she feels back to me.
My wife died from early onset Lewy Body Dementia. This movie just tears my heart out.
The Brazilian version of this movie's title is "Para Sempre Alice", which translates as "Forever Alice". I think that was a beautiful touch.
Me too.
vai brasiliam
@DΔRK L0V3 no it isnt
This film proves Kristen Stewart CAN act!
Most definitely. I found myself really loving how she just dove in here. Julianne and Alec were excellent here, too. An award well deserved for Julianne. Finally.
She acts the same as in twilight. If she can’t break out of “character” (quotes because there’s no character since she can’t act) then she can’t act. Lol 😂
Watch X Ray Camp
Oh no! She just dont stop making that strage faces wtf
I'm not a huge fan of her, but I thought she was great in this movie.
I come back and watch this every so often. One of my favorite scenes all-time of any movie.
Kristen is so amazing.
Watching this scene a year later and it's still quite possibly one of the saddest film scenes I've ever seen.
This scene brings back to the days i helped my mother showered and everything (not an easy things to do because there were times she rejected me helping her and cursed me all the way while i was helping her), then when she was already in her clean clothes and all comfortable, she always looked at me fondly, she didnt say a thing. Just stare at me like she wanted to say something but she couldn’t. That was how she communicate, when she couldnt say anything, her eyes said everything..
i remember the last few days my nan still lived at home, she has severe dementia and was refusing to take her medication. i remember sitting there trying to get her to take it. her and my stepgrandad ended up in hospital that night, and i had never felt so hopeless. she doesn't remember me anymore, but i hope she knows i love her.
There is no greater love than a mother's love for her children.
her life is so beautiful, which makes it even sadder to see her forget it slowly each day.
We can forget what we saw, but we will never forget what we felt.
A more powerful movie you will never see.. Moore..Absolutely Brilliant...Stewart...Brilliant....Baldwin...Very good
What a powerful film. I was drawn into it, it began slowly then a feeling of being able to identify with the entire story became evident. The last scene left me as a basket case of sobbing and tears but an understanding of what love is about. Excellent film beautiful music.
Damn.. she doesn't even need to look at the book anymore.
And her eyes!
This is the first scene that I've ever watched. The way the daughter was speaking to her mother was beautiful, and it reminded me how when I used to visit my granddaddy every day. I'd speak to him, and he mumbled very few words, so calmly while looking into my eyes. I could feel a small but strong connection. He passed last year, and I miss him so much.
I have to watch!
I am truly sorry for your loss. This scene must mean a lot to you.
I don't care what anyone says, in my opinion, I believe that there was no other way that this ending could have been any better than it already is. This scene gives me chills as well as many tears. One of the most emotional scenes I have ever witnessed in a movie. This scene just gives me so much to hold onto. I love it so much. Both actresses are both beautiful inside and outside for portraying such incredible roles into a bond of stronger love that continues to grow throughout the movie into the best relationship in the movie. It is so incredibly heartbreaking while simultaneously heartwarming. Just seeing how they act, and look into each others eyes, already showing the powerful love that they have for each other, and then to hear this woman with Alzheimer's still have so much intelligence after continuing with the disease just lets you know that she is "Still Alice." And that last quote just gets me so much. "It was about love." And the way that it synchronizes with the beautifully sad music, and the flashback to the mother and daughter on the beach walking away, as if knowing the movie will end, as well as her death may be approaching, but their love for each other will forever continue to live on no matter what. 💔💕❤💜😢😢👩👧
thank you, you just helped me figure out that last scene better. 💕💕🤞
I'll never get tired of hearing Kristen speak those words. I'll never get tired of this movie. Beautiful.
Love conquers all :)
Beautiful scene. Julianne Moore is perfect here and Kristen Stewart is excellent too.
except disease, growing apart, violence, depression, betrayal and all the other things it doesn't stand against.
then33k4 You sound like you need a hug.
then33k4 Love stands against all of the things and I find it quite sad that you cannot see that :)
Ryan Attree
please don't hug me in public. you should tell your parents first about how you feel about yourself..and us.. call me ?
@@then33k4 We all have our downs. And I deeply believe that, deep down, we need it.
Now, love is everywhere. And I am not only talking about relationship you could have with your parents, lover((s) ;), or friends. I am talking about a smile from a stranger, sunsets, dogs joyfully playing in a park, take time to enjoy an activity your like (like singing, watching a movie, ... ), ...
i used to think that Kristen was a bad actress , but when i saw this little scene, it caught me and after a moment a realized i was hooked with her reading. Jullanne is a great actress, so glad to see her getting all this awards and respect from people who know and enjoy movies.
She was never a bad actress, she was a good actress given bad material and lousy direction.
My grandmother had AD and the last time I saw her she spoke incoherently but yet was able to call me by the childhood pet name she had given me. Our souls were connected for ever more.
My father had early onset Alzheimer’s. He went from successful executive and provider to this state when I left home. I wish I had been more compassionate rather than angry at the fact that his mind was gone and the difficulty of living with him. 40 years later I still regret it.
1:28 "... 'cause nothing's lost forever" and that look, tho. Such a touching scene. Kristen performance was wonderful, and Julianne; wow. Great actors, great script, great movie..
Ce film est bouleversant et tous les acteurs magnifiques
For in the end it is not the memories,
but the imprints of those memories that remain
in us -
indelible marks of time
that transcend the waters
of the torrential frugality of this river. (Balam Acab)
Never a movie scene has made cried more - Absolutely beautiful.
So stunningly acted, tears.
Oh man I got teary eyed at this scene and I've never seen the film.
+randomhumor1 watch the film and you will have a river at your house lol
I have thought of Kristen Stewart as a good actress but this scene is just…. She’s amazing. This scene breaks me every time as someone who had a loved one with Alzheimer’s. The way she looks at her gauging if she’s understanding and how she should keep going. Just masterful and obviously Julianne killed it
I passed through a similar experience with my mother. It's something that marks U 4 life. Can't erase from my mind - after years - one of her last facial expressions: a happy, smiling baby but in an adult severely incapacitated body.
I am very sorry to hear that. I believe that deep in her mind, her love for you has never been erased. Life is sometimes cruel but you must carry on to keep your precious memories of her alive.
My feels right now! The scene was so touching and Kristen acting was amazing
I agree, notice that before speaking to her mother she drops the book and quietly sighs. That' s instinctive acting..
Agreed and Julianne Moore's as well.
when i finished watching this movie i sat there in stunned silence for about 30 sec and then sobbed for 3 minutes straight. still not sure why. i was just so deeply heartbroken, and moved, and strangely gladdened.
This was such a beautiful film, so touching. I was holding back the tears at the end. Julianne Moore did such an astounding job
This movie F’d me up. It put me in a depressed mood for days that it was almost dangerous. I kind of regret watching this scene again.
Kristen Stewart is a treasure.
There is not a day that goes by where I don't appreciate watching this movie to appreciate my mother who succumbed to this and still remembered she loved her sons.
Wow, this movie is amazing!
This is by far Kristen Stewart's best role she's ever done. Well done. And Julianne. Mind blowing
She's a god-awful actress. When I saw this with friends we cringed. She is acting with a heavyweight and is so self-conscious and not "IN THE MOMENT" it's painful to watch. Why they didn't give this to the other sister is beyond me,
When my grandfather died, I didn't shed a tear. You see, I wasn't close to him, although I wish I were. Then I watched this movie with my best friend - we have this thing of not crying, of concealing our feelings, almost like a game - and I couldn't stop crying. It's too powerful, too realistic.
I had to lie to my mother, I said that the movie was awful when she asked me about it, but only because I don't want her to feel sad. She would - she was the only one who cried during his funeral, even though she saw the shell of his former self everyday. She would be crushed.
I support you Davi Galino, the film is really very powerful, do not have to not cry, who passed for sad moments like this knows that impossible not to be moved , is real of all, is life in our lives.
Amazing acting and this film literally broke my heart :(
Mine too. 😢
Yet another year later and this scene still makes me tear up.
It has been a while sice I watcher a movie as powerful as Still Alice, the final scene has really gotten to me, it might have been Alice joining her sister in the afterlife or perhaps she and her mom as a symbol of mother-daughter love...It's funny how in the beginning of the movie, Alice and her daughter were written to be some sort of antipodes, in the way they perceived life and futur, and it was such an emotionnal expérience to witness their bond getting stonger during the movie and watching their love towards each other till the end.
Kristen's performance here is STAGGERING. It's someone reciting text that means the world to them, and trying with all their ability to make the person they're reading believe in it too (or at least acknowledge it).
It's an example of what I find so moving about performance. The commitment to making a stranger feel what the actor feels. In this case, it's a daughter trying to reach the emotional core of her mother through art that touches her own.
Monumental ending to this movie. Both of those women are amazing here.
Staggeringly BAD - She's a god-awful actress. When I saw this with friends we cringed. She is acting with a heavyweight and is so self-conscious and not "IN THE MOMENT" it's painful to watch. Why they didn't give this to the other sister is beyond me.
@@user-ir8mf7km6w bad take!
All is love dear ones, everything else is imagined confusion - Byron Katie. This quote has saved me many times xxxx I love this scene, even though it is gut wrenchingly sad and beautiful
she's still there in this part
I"m not a fan or not NOT a fan of Kristin Stewart. But, this movie. Especially this scene. Kristin delivers . I saw this movie in 2014-2015. When it came out. I remember this scene to this day. I mean Julienne, of course. But, the question here is Kristin. And, Kristin delivered this scene so wonderfully that I have remembered the emotional impact of this final scene for the past 6 years. Just watching this 3 minutes brings me to tears. There is no question Kristin Stewart is a good actress. She is a great actress. This alone shows what she can do. It awakened me to her potential. This was a touching scene and movie in which there were two standout performances. Obviously Julienne. But Kristin's performance IMO was stellar and made me see her in a new way. This scene is one of, if not her best acting and the emotional impact of this final scene would have been lost if she wasn't able to adequately convey the message of love to her mom. It is divine.
A troubled mind that has lost almost all memory and ability to interpret, yet it could never forget the feeling of love. Alice is not commenting on the monologue here, she's describing her daughter caring about her, taking her seriously and reading her long, difficult speeches as she was used to. She's describing what she's seeing; the loving face of her daughter, being passionate about what she loves. A mother's mind never stops revolving around her children. And she's taken over by love. Magnificent performances of Moore and Stewart.
they have such good chemistry on screen; also that scène always make me cry
This scene is absolutely heartbreaking. More so given the themes in Angels America; hope, perseverance, love, legacy and the inevitability of pain.
Oh my God, this had me in tears. Is this what I have to be prepared for? When my dad, who is 66 years old, has advanced Alzheimer's and is severely ill will no longer be able to speak when he gets worse and worse? So heart-wrenching... :( :(
I send you the hugest and warmest hug... I know it doesn't solve anything, but I want you to know you are not alone
At the very end this is what happens with Alzheimer am sorry to say. I went through this with my mom who had dementia and it is heartbreaking.
I am truly sorry. My wholehearted condolences go straight to you and your father.
Beautiful ending. Left me in tears
Kristen has emotional range, I knew she is going to be a great Diana. Definitely deserved the Oscar nomination!
Mosse Matters, you were not the only person who cried through this film. My stepmother's youngest daughter and son-in-law cried too. I bought the film as a Christmas 🎁 meaning present. They are with me, Julianne Moore worked hard to finally win the Oscar and I saw the film in the theaters telling the employees that "Julianne Moore has tonight in the bag".
it made me cry again
This is my first time just seeing this film and I haven’t even watch the movie and I’m already crying
This is true love... this scene breaks my heart
Incrediable performance on both sides!
Kristen Stewart's acting here is sublime, Julianne is perfect
I love that Tony Kushner quote.
I hope they find a cure for Alzheimer's in my lifetime. If they find a cure for it, I hope it restores memories of people who have Alzheimer's 100%.
Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease, unfortunately no 'cure' will be able to bring back neurones and thus memories lost. We can only hope it prevents further loss and stopping the disease progressing but reversing it I'm afraid is near impossible.
+Daniel May What does neurodegenerative mean?
Matthew Smollen Your brain is made up of interconnected neurons (nerves) in a very complex structure. Neurodegenerative means these connections and nerves die.
Okay I understand, but I was also thinking that maybe a cure could bring them back to life.
Matthew Smollen That would be like trying to bring a person that's been dead for a while back to life.
She doesn't know the word anymore. She only knows the feeling.
Kristen was very well cast for this, kuddos for her. Award performance by Julianne too. Daamn. This scene hit me very hard.
LOVE was what was going on between those two. :) Just fantastic.
My gosh...my grandma had the same expression...the same lost eyes...I told my parents to not watch this film in a couple of years...too fresh memories
Utterly heartbreaking.
Consiglio a tutti questo bellissimo e commovente film. Attori magistrali
Well, I had to cry...
Angels in America is such a beautiful play. And that they used it in this scene is truly poetic.
Stunning! From Academy Award Nominee Kristen Stewart ❤
❤ this movie they did a great job
This scene was interesting, in another scene she confuses Lydia for her Sister, the way that she knew the passage was about Love reflected the way Alice kept on her most treasured memories particularly those of her Sister's whom she likely had a very close relationship with and Lydia reminded her of it.
+Samuel Benitez The passage wasn't about love, not exactly. It was about letting go, and understand that nothing is lost forever, though knowing that you have to go through the painful progress of missing what you have lost, despite needing to dream ahead. Alice replied love because she wasnt in a coherent state, but was very right, because Lydia was reading that passage to her to tell her she can let go and nothing is lost forever because she loves her thus the passage was about lydia's love for her mother.
This film is extraordinary. Well deserved Oscar
I was to young to understand any of this at the age I watched it. Now that I’m older, I wish I was still in that bliss.
"What was it about?"
"Love"
Believe it or not the scene that really got to me was the casual one right before this, when the father and daughter are talking about her right in front of her like she's not there and her hair was all disheveled. This beautiful, strong, amazing woman was reduced to how we treat little children, and her family was doing everything in their power short of completely abandoning her to avoid confronting and watching this pain.
The way Alice looked at Lydia is the way my mom (who is now in a home, with late stage EOAD at 65) looks at my brother when he gets near her.
She may no long talk or respond or recognise me nor my dad, but that soft, now dull, twinkle in her eyes when she recognises my brother is so heartwarming.
And it's so well captured in this scene. Wonderful acting from the both of them. Absolutely heart breaking
Sobbing 😰
I haven't seen the movie, I know what happens, but I think this ending is meaningful. Kristen's character read something beautiful and when she asked her mother about its meaning, the mother said love. And that last shot isn't meant to be reflecting on a time that use to be, but how things can *still* be, in spite of the challenges. Alice can still feel love, she can still love and her family can cherish the time they have left together. Even if her mind is going away, that doesn't mean the good times have to come to an end
Kristen Stewart playing Julianne Moore's daughter is everything I want out of cinema. This is was such a great movie.
This movie is dangerously depressing.
Movie had me teary eyed most Ever, When my GREAT grandma passed away last month June 5th she died having Alzheimers but it didn’t deteriorate as bad as Alice did when she passed , I’ll always watch this movie n think of her💙❤️🩹💙
Que película mas triste 😢😢😢
Melhor Filme de todos... melhor cena ♥♥♥
Something about Kristen's performance that feels so relaxed and natural here, even if she is talking really fast. I like it