At a movie

This weekends movies, the trifecta as it were... First off there was Silver Linings Playbook.. :

With Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence it is as good as everyone says it is but fairly predictable.. I liked it because I really like J-Law as it were...

You're not You..  This movie I had on my to watch list since the start of the year if not sooner and put it off until last night.. There wasn't a reason for waiting except things kept getting in the way.. As far as the real reason, I don't care for Hillery Swank, or I should say I DIDN'T care for her until this movie.. She really did an excellent job playing someone with ALS.. ALS is what they call Lou Gehrigs disease..  Excerpt from NIH:

"ALS causes weakness with a wide range of disabilities.. Eventually, all muscles under voluntary control are affected, and individuals lose their strength and the ability to move their arms, legs, and body. When muscles in the diaphragm and chest wall fail, people lose the ability to breathe without ventilatory support. Most people with ALS die from respiratory failure, usually within 3 to 5 years from the onset of symptoms. However, about 10 percent of those with ALS survive for 10 or more years."

This was the hard part of the movie, I really hadn't read that much about ALS, and so it was hard to see this be acted out, and acted out in great detail.. Emmy Rossum plays the girl who helps her out, playing a fairly nasty screw up and for whatever the reason they bond...  As her condition worsens  her ability to talk starts to deteriorate to the point where it is hard to understand her.. And the end when she is gasping for air she chose not to be on the ventilator..  That was extremely hard to watch..

Perfect Sisters was the third movie.. And as sad as the material was on You're Not You, it was as equally sad for Perfect Sisters.. The way the writeup for this movie makes it sound like the sisters murdered their mother for the fun of it.. That is not the case.. But the way it evolved the girls started to go down this dark path brought on by their mother's drinking problem, and the men she chooses to ..be with.. And so in the end after the girls exhaust all means to get help they resort to putting their mother out of their misery..  Quite an interesting farce except that it is a true story..

Badge Henry