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4.0 out of 5 stars
i Love You Mom, 21 Jun 2008
"In the deathbed drama "Two Weeks," Sally Field creates an agonizing portrait of Anita Bergman, a middle-aged American every woman in the final stages of ovarian cancer. As her four children and their families descend on the home in North Carolina that she shares with her second husband, Jim (James Murtaugh), the movie squarely confronts the physical realities of dying." Stephen Holden
Dr Ira Byock, Director of Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center's Palliative Care Service, is a physician I have worked with many times with my patient population. In his book The Four Things That Matter Most' the four simple phrases that matter the most -- ""Please forgive me,"" "I forgive you,"" ""Thank you,"" and ""I love you"" -- carry enormous power. In many ways, they contain the most powerful words in our language. Help us to forgive, appreciate, love, and celebrate one another more fully. These words are the essence of this film 'Two Weeks". Sally Field is extraordinary in this film as the mother who is dying of ovarian cancer. Her four children all come home to stand vigil. None of them really know what they are in for. Ben Chaplin plays the older son from California. A recovering alcoholic, drug addict, we are not privy to much inside info, he is into Zen and withholding his emotions. Sister, Julianne Nicholson, leads the troops with knowledge from books and the love she has for her mother. Tim Cavanaugh plays the middle child, the most reliable and the least ready to face the death of his mother. The youngest child, Glenn Howerton, is he ever really there, has the most obnoxious wife. Here they are watching their mom, vomit daily and vomiting stool, cleaning the body and cleaning the bed. After a while the daily ritual becomes a routine manner. Mom, Sally Fields has taped her last words. Some are trite and some are true, are they necessary? Mom seems to be prepared and the best that she has is her family and a Hospice Nurse, who knows exactly what to do. Pain medication, care and love and advice are what the Hospice group to best. They are necessary and wouldn't it be swell if every dying person had the benefit of Hospice.
The writer/director, Steve Stockman, has written a film after his own experience. His mother died several years ago and his experiences are explored fully. Fully developed characters are what is missing from this film . We know they are the children but not who and what they are. Little snippets come through at times, but who are these people we are to care about.
This is a lovely film about dying, but we need to know more. I want to care about these people, I did care about Mom. She was heroic and loving and just the mom you want and want to be. I love you, mom.
Recommended. prisrob 05-18-08
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