Still Alice joins a growing list of moving films that try to show the experience of Alzheimer’s from the patients and families points of view. Iris (2001) is a biography of British novelist Iris Murdoch and her partner John Bayley. Away from Her (2006) is the story of a man dealing with his wife being in a Alzheimer’s care unit where she becomes someone else to the point where she no longer recognizes him and falls in love with another patient. Others include The Savages (2007) about siblings caring for a parent with dementia, Aurora Borealis (2006) about a patient who needs more care than his wife can provide, and The Notebook (2004) about a husband who tries to help his wife with Alzheimer’s to remember their life together, to name a few.
