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"The Father" ... a masterpiece of cinematography on dementia from a new perspective

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Most of the films that deal with characters with dementia focus on the impact of this mental illness on the lives of the people surrounding the main character, but The Father offers the character's viewpoint herself and how she interacts with her surroundings.

To achieve this, the French director, Florian Zeller, who is directing the film from a script he wrote with Christopher Hampton, quoting Zeller himself, is borrowing an idea from Spanish / Mexican filmmaker Luis Buñuel, which is to use multiple actors to play the same role.

This gives the viewer an outlet into the character's disoriented mind, the result is very impressive, and the ending that we see from a neutral point of view is heartbreaking.

Those who have lived the experience of life with a patient with dementia of all kinds, whether it is Alzheimer's or senile dementia, will be affected the most by this film.

The memory of the human mind is closely related to the person’s personality, so a person without a memory is a person without an identity, does not know himself and does not know where he lives and does not know his family around him, a person without a memory may relieve himself in his clothes because he does not remember where the bathroom is or even knows that he needs a bathroom .

It is even worse than a child who came to this world to learn how to clean himself, because the child will learn and remember, and as for a person with dementia, there is no benefit in teaching and reminding him.

The embodiment of the able star, Anthony Hopkins, of the role of the "father" afflicted with dementia is an ideal embodiment, there are clear things for him, but his separation from reality and the reality of the characters around him increases with the progress of the film events.

The movie "The Father" tells the story of this narrator who cannot be relied upon to understand what is happening. He is an elderly person. We see the events of the film from his sad eyes, because his daughter, who gives him all the attention, Anne (Olivia Coleman), informs him that she will leave for Paris with her new friend.

Anne promises her father Anthony - and the character's name as well as that of her actor's - that she will keep visiting him.

Not content with lamenting his daughter’s departure, Anthony wonders why his other favorite younger daughter has stopped visiting him. Anne enlists a nurse named Laura (Imogen Boots) to take care of her father after she leaves.

Despite his reluctance to meet the nurse, he quickly relates to her later, and at the same time things get mixed up for Anthony when he sees two men in the house, the first personified by Mark Gates and the second by Rufus Sewell, both of whom claim to be Anne's husband, but how can Anne be married to them if she wants to leave to Paris to settle down with a third man, that's on Anthony's confused mind!

Zeller - and this is his first directorial experience - employs cunning to place the film on an unclear line between psychological suspense and family drama, although we know exactly what is happening, but the elements of ambiguity open the door for Anthony to be deluded with a case of dementia with her, by others who have an interest in pushing the man To madness.

When Olivia Williams suddenly takes the role of Anne from Olivia Coleman, we get confused and imagine that the man whose memory is deteriorating may be the victim of a family conspiracy to seize his money and his home and leave him in the home of the elderly, especially since the makeup and the manner of hairdressing, make the two actresses very similar.

This movie will cause inconvenience to many people, because the characterization of the character that Zeller wrote is adapted from real characters, and the pain appears clearly on Ann's life. As for the other characters, it is difficult to say who they are or who they represent.

The last scene reveals some ambiguity because the film takes a step back, clarifies things and solves the mysterious elements. The final scene is very similar to the last 20 minutes of David Lynch’s classic masterpiece "Mulholland Drive" 2001. In that movie, Lynch introduces the state of consciousness to his heroine to end the unconscious, while here Zeller employs almost the same trick. To differentiate between what Anthony saw in a mild state of dementia, and what he saw while his dementia flared up.

Hopkins' performance is brilliant and heartbreaking, about a strong young man who turned into an old man without an identity due to dementia.

And for those who think that caring for a dementia patient is more difficult for the caregiver than the patient himself, the movie shakes the entity of this idea and destroys its foundations.

Anthony suffers the upheaval of life on him, is very afraid while he is in a safe place, feels treacherous because his daughter left him and he is the one who raised her and took care of her throughout the years that she needs him, feels lonely because everyone is abandoning him, remembers that he had a mother and wants her beside him, sobbing because he feels that everyone has abandoned From him and he is in dire need of them because in his weakest state, he feels that he is stripped of everything and floundering in the darkness of his memory and he does not even know who he is.

The closest thing to "Daddy" in terms of the topic is Still Alice in 2015, which brought "Oscar" best actress to Julianne Moore.

We can comfortably say that the movie "The Father" is the strongest, most painful and influential in the same scenes, given the strength of its directing, and its presentation of dementia from the patient's point of view, and because of the performance of the almighty Hopkins who will cry if he is watching the movie if he has a heart.

"The Father" is nominated for the highest award at the "Oscars" this month and he deserves it. This is a wonderful movie and it deserves to be watched. This is a masterpiece that is timeless in the memory of cinema, and once again we say this film will be very painful for those who have lived or dealt with a dementia patient.

• "The Father" is a candidate for the most prestigious award at the "Oscars" this month, and he deserves it.

• Hopkins’s brilliant and heartbreaking performance, about a strong young man who turned into an old man without an identity due to dementia.

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