I believe year 2020 is a year where most people hadn’t stepped into the cinema, but there is this great film from last year that I’d really like to recommend: The Father.  

It’s about dementia. I saw the title and knew it’s not going to be an uplifting movie, but am so glad I chose to watch it nevertheless. It’s provided me with a lot of insight as of why some elderly behaved the way they did, why sometimes they can get be so emotionally unstable or get so agitated or frustrated easily, they are living in a different, such confusing world that often makes no sense!

It’s difficult to imagine living that way, but I think this film has done well portraying it. I thought about what some of the children of my clients told me about their elderly parents.  I thought about my own father too, and how he was like sometimes. I gained quite some perspective from this movie. It’s not like reading the symptoms and presentation on my psychology textbooks, it’s like living 1.5 hours of their lives. (I almost thought it was a psychological thriller…)

If you find him looking kind of familiar, yes that’s Anthony Hopkins! He has received this 2nd Oscar Best Actor acting this role, which was great!