Notes on Still Alice

• Use of focus to reflect her deteriorating mental state
• Editor said about taming Kristen Stewart's performance
• End it with mother daughter rather than husband wife
• Kate Bosworth's role was limited
• green childish butterfly necklace - gift from mother, covering self in memories, part of her reverting back to childishness
• Sparse use of music
• not always building to a cut to a different scene
• pulling focus in and out of objects like her mories come back and forth and the comprehending ability of her mind alters
• leaps straight into her first being minorly affected by the disease - editor said audience already knew film was about JuliaNE mOORe geeting alzheimers so had to get on with it