Month: April 2021

“Behind Her Eyes”–For All To See

Written by Diana Paul on April 25, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews, Unhealed Wound. No Comments on “Behind Her Eyes”–For All To See

Behind Her Eyes, based on Sarah Pinborough’s best-selling novel of the same name, tells the story of Adele and her husband David, a renowned psychiatrist specializing in drug addiction. The couple live an ostensibly perfect life in an exclusive London suburb. The beautiful Adele Ferguson (Eve Hewson) was recently a patient in a mental institution where her husband was the presiding psychiatrist. Upon release she marries the handsome doctor. While a patient, Adele becomes best friends with a gay working-class Glasgow junkie, Rob (Robert Aramayo) who seems...

“The Mauritanian”–Guantanamo Diary

Written by Diana Paul on April 19, 2021. Posted in Unhealed Wound. No Comments on “The Mauritanian”–Guantanamo Diary

Based upon the NYT best-selling memoir, Guantanamo Diary by Mohamedou Ould Salahi, we see the endurance of a young Mauritanian, Mohamedou Slahi (played by Tahar Rahim, The Prophet). He is being held in Guantanamo Bay after 9/11. The legal drama The Mauritanian demonstrates the lawyer’s duty to represent a client, regardless of doubt in his innocence, and whether winning at all costs is what a justice system should condone. Attorney Nancy Hollander (Jodie Foster in her Golden Globe winning performance) and her associate Teri Duncan (Shailene Woodley) are committed to defending...

“The Father”–A Patriarch’s Decline

Written by Diana Paul on April 12, 2021. Posted in Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on “The Father”–A Patriarch’s Decline

The Father is a devastating, disquieting journey into the horrors of dementia, both for the afflicted and for those who are close to the afflicted. Artfully helmed by French playwright Florian Zeller in his directorial debut, Zeller invites the viewer into a breathtaking and wrenching look at advancing dementia through both the individual frightened by what is happening and to the no-less-terrified family and caregivers. Watching a loved one die is always harrowing, but dementia makes it especially so, as the patient not only slips away mentally, but lashes...

“I Care a Lot”–Caregiver or Caretaker?

Written by Diana Paul on April 5, 2021. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 2 Comments on “I Care a Lot”–Caregiver or Caretaker?

In this Netflix original movie, I Care a Lot, the highly successful court-appointed guardian, Marla Grayson (the astonishing Rosamund Pike of “Gone Girl” fame), masterminds a scheme to being appointed guardian of wealthy elderly patients by the state court. Marla is charged with caring for the elderly who are identified by doctors as incompetent to manage their own health needs, daily living and assets. Marla and her partner Fran (Eiza González) run a highly profitable hustle –a guardianship grift of elderly “wards of the state”. To the judge...

Month: April 2021

“Behind Her Eyes”–For All To See

“The Mauritanian”–Guantanamo Diary

“The Father”–A Patriarch’s Decline

“I Care a Lot”–Caregiver or Caretaker?

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