Wit 6.8
Wit, HBO movie (2001), based on the play by Margaret Edson.Stars Emma Thompson as Professor Vivian Bearing.
Professor Vivian Bearing, renowned to colleagues for her scholarship and to students for the rigor of her course on 17th century poetry and her complete unwillingness to negotiate deadlines, discovers that she has terminal ovarian cancer and learns some things about humanity through her endless rounds of chemotherapy, medication, and interactions with hospital personnel. It's hard to criticize this kind of movie, one which strives for unflinching honesty on the subjects of death and disease, since it's like denouncing spinach, but I didn't enjoy the movie because it encroached upon the territory of documentaries and teen flicks, relying on a narrator who addresses the camera as if the audience were in the scene. Didactic, yes, but the lessons on life that it serves ultimately feel antibacterialized and untouchable.
Verdict: 6.8
posted by alice @ 2:34 PM
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