Sometimes each and every one of us, being busy and tired, forgets simple things. I am not talking about men, who usually don't remember dates, birthdays and anniversaries. Unfortunately, problems with concentration, the sense of being lost and forgetting things isn't only down to overwork.

Recently, I watched the deeply moving story "Still Alice" by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is a teacher at Columbia University. A happily married woman, an active and organized mother, she has a deliberate, stable life. She and her husband (Alec Baldwin) have three grown-up children: Anna (Kate Bosworth), Tom (Hunter Parrish) and the youngest, Lydia (Kristen Stewart). For some time she has been having small problems with her memory; for example, one day she gets lost on the university campus. Concerned about this she has a physical examination and receives a terrible diagnosis: she has a rare, hereditary kind of Alzheimer's disease. Drama petrifies the whole family; each of Alice's children is threatened with the disease.

From this time onwards she struggles with the ugly awareness of her own limitation. All the more so, since, up to now, she has been known for her mind and intellect. Now she feels like words hang on a string around her never allowing themselves to be caught. The woman is sensible of the fact that her illness is getting worse. The awareness that as a mother she transmits the risk to her children must be terrible as well. It is obvious that she does not do this consciously or deliberately, but it doesn't matter for her. Step by step she loses her life, loses her past, she is afraid of the future and the present is more and more difficult for her and her family.

"Still Alice" is on the one hand a history of a woman with a disease which day after day eats away at her life, and on the other hand it is a story about the fight for every scrap of memory, and every moment of being herself. Alice makes a touching remark at the beginning of her illness: "It's a shame I don't have cancer". Cancer is awful, the fight for life is heroic and crippling but it invites compassion. For the afflicted there are organized runs, charity events and concerts. Civilization has grown accustomed to cancer. Alzheimer's is still embarrassing and hidden from the world.

This movie is shocking, the subject of disease is treated delicately and sensitively, and Julianne Moore (the winner of an Oscar for this role) as Alice is perfect. Although I sometimes felt like switching off this movie, I saw it to the end and I don't regret it. I recommend it!