Obituary: Robin Williams, found dead in his home
Latest Movie The Sad Last Robin Williams
I remember Hollywood don't forget Robin Williams
Reality is written in prose.
It's hard to fold it into a sensible rhyme.
When news
of Robin Williams' 63-year-old suicide
broke out in August 2014
, the global factory of hasty obituaries quickly began spewing rubble.
It was not so much poetry as a simple imposture smelling of incense.
What if the fate of the sad clown;
that if the forced consequence of an inveterate addiction to drugs;
that if the decline of fame badly assimilated ...
For a time, since his death until
Perhaps right now, the stupidity of the commonplace rhymed in consonance with the impudence of the rush.
And so on until a documentary,
Robin's wish,
of
Tylor norwood
, returns to the world of cinema the grace of fair prose.
Powered, engineered and produced by
Susan Schneider Williams
, his wife, the film analyzes with care, affection and great care in a rigorous act of love the influence that the consequences of the disease never diagnosed in the actor of
Lewy body dementia.
Everything was much more cruel, for banal, for prosaic. «When the doctors after the autopsy told me what I had, suddenly everything made sense.
The fact that something had infiltrated my husband's brain explained a large part of his condition before he died ", says Susan before the camera while explaining the first motivation for the film that opens on the platform this Friday
Filmin
.
Beyond the technical details (these are abnormal groups of proteins that accumulate in brain cells and that end up being
responsible for between 10% and 15% of dementia cases)
, what is relevant, as always, is the drama.
We are talking about a tragedy that literally buried in confusion and fear one of the last geniuses that comedy has given and, why not, we are talking about the tragedy (now closer to the grotesque) of a media incapable of managing its voracity and craving for attention.
And so.
"What I fear most is a disease that extinguishes my spark," said the actor
In an earlier documentary,
In the mind of Robin Wlliams
(2018), the protagonist of comedies such as
Mrs. Doubtfire
and
A cage of crickets
, from dramas like
The Dead Poets Club, Awakenings
and
The unstoppable Will Hunting
, or of the two things like
Good morning Vietnam
and
The fisher king,
He confessed that what he most feared was losing "the spark", that his conscience would be dull.
Not in vain, all his colleagues unfailingly pointed out as his main virtue his capacity for transformation and improvisation on stage.
In fact,
The great merit of the film is not only to put an end to a sinister myth, but to display its most human and close face cleanly
through the voices of his friends and family who were also fellow travelers and witnesses of the last days.
And here, "the spark" that goes out.
Somehow her worst omens, her most obvious fears, were fulfilled.
So ruthless, so prosaic. For Susan, as important as making the disease known, was showing that the attentive, cultured, calm and intelligent Williams was not always the same as the Williams that all her fans had in mind.
They did not contradict each other, they simply complemented each other.
And in none of them - the Williams that fans approached to simply hug him ("They didn't even ask for autographs") and the perfect talker Williams on any subject - never got the last Williams eaten by anxiety.
because of insomnia, paranoia and incipient Parkinson's.
Bill
David E. Kelly
, creator of the series
The Crazy Ones,
that during much of the filming he had no choice but to hide his trembling hand.
And not far
Shawn Levy,
series director
Night in the museum
recalls the suffering on the set of a man who had trouble remembering his script lines.
Always bullied for not knowing what was going on in his brain.
"Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have money to spare"
Williams was always the opposite of the stereotype he wanted to become after his death.
He never obeyed the hasty definition of the deranged stand-up writer;
he who was defined from his first steps on stage as the best of them all.
Neither was hers the tormented soul of the one who after an addiction always remains hidden behind its shadow.
And threatens.
He had been clean and sober for eight years on the day of his death
and his ability to laugh at himself and at every ounce of his ailment was embodied in a series of epigrams as lucid as they were bleeding.
"Remember, suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem"
It was one of them, the most opportune perhaps.
"Cocaine is God's way of telling you that you have money to spare",
Robin's wish is not so much a reckoning as a fair, harsh and necessary tribute.
And written in the saddest and most poetic of prose.
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