shayma-08834 The movie "Iris" is about a female writer, who lives in England and gets to suffer from Alzheimer's disease in her old age. In her youth she's about to write a big novel and is a Master Degree Candidate. Iris meets a man, John, to a party. John's highly educated as well – he's a professor. Iris and John get fond of each other and spend a lot of time together, but they're not really lovers. They like to swim a lot and during the movie we see the ocean repeating times. Iris is a very independent and eccentric woman – she has several friends, whom she gets to bed with. This sets John up, because he likes her a lot. He confronts her and after some time they get married. In her old age Iris gets interviewed in a TV-show, where the first symptoms of dementia are showing. She forgets what to say and from now on her illness only gets worser – Iris repeats herself and leaves home, where she can't find the way back. John is very protecting, understanding and supporting upon Iris. He still loves her as much as before her disease. In the end Iris moves into a nursing home. Here she feels happiness.In my opinion it's a good, but sad movie because we see how one person changes as a cause of dementia. We also see how John struggles just to make it through the day with the woman, he loves, who now is ill. There's also more focus on and talking about dementia now than before. We simply know more about this terrible disease.The water in the movie symbolizes rebirth and peace. It's in our mothers wombs we are surrounded by water and there's peacefully. Just like this, Iris gets peace in the end of her life, where she dies happily.

muca-24893 The film Iris, is about the author an philosifer by same name who lived from 15th of July until the 8th of February 1999. Iris is a very eccentric and independent woman, who meets a man named John. John is also a writer, and is as highly educated, as Iris is it. They share the same passion of writing and reading. They are eachothers opposites. John is very naive, shy and he studders. The way Iris knows her way with male friends, is having sex with them. John is not that experinced in life, and he thinks they are a couple. John sees Iris with another man in her apartment, and confronts her about it, and then she tells him, that he is the only one who knows her better than anyone else, and declares her love to him. They are getting married, but are not having any children. When Iris is about to write her new book, she forgets how to spell simple words. At an interview in a studio, Iris forgets how to explain properly about education. She is wondering about, what is happening, and John tries to calm her down. Iris is suffering from Alzheimers disease, and the disease is taken control of Iris, and then she is the one to be dependent on her husband. One day she leaves home, John tries to look for her every where he thinks she might be. An old friend comes to the house with Iris, and when John opens the door, he can not remember the person, who comes back with Iris. After this situation, and Iris' condition is getting worse, John realize that having Iris at home is very hard for him, and he wants her at a nursing home, where they are professionals in Alzheimer's disease, and they have the knowledge needed , so they can take good care of Iris in a proper way. Shortly after arriving at the nursing home, Iris dies with John by her side. A very good film, that describes the Alzheimer's disease in a very good way, and also how you can react to the disease as a relative, when you still have hope for your loved ones.

Karen Jensen The movie was a little long range, with many flashback in to Iris past. It was nice to have see how her life was when she was younger, where she writing and was a person who lived a very free life, without depending on any one. In the movie, are there were many collections from before she was ill, which she was known, had very different for large vocabulary, but also that she loved to write. After she became ill with Alzheimer's she knew not how she was going to write. One of the flashback, are shown many times in the film is when they ate out and cycling, where John, Iris husband, yells after her that she needs to slow down because he cant keep up with her. I think that the flashback describes much of the films idea about how that relationship is. Because he constantly, is after her, and falls just into her lifestyle. If one thinks of when she is healthy, he does what she says and does to adapt into her everyday life, even when she gets sick. It is also him who suits her, and his everyday life is going to fit into how she did it. The movie describes well have it is to have the Alzheimer disease.

George Wright Iris is a very moving film, in which Judi Dench and James Broadbent portray the ageing characters of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, still much in love, as together they deal with Iris's Alzeimer's disease. The film is based on John Bayley's book of the real-life struggle which he and his famous literary wife endured. This stage of life is neither sad nor pathetic, but two people facing together life's sometimes cruel fate.We see through a series of flashbacks how they met and forged a lifelong relationship. The younger Iris and John are performed by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville, as a fun-loving couple cycling through the countryside and going for swims off the nearest riverbank. Iris was a worldly woman involved with multiple male partners and John, a late-bloomer with a stutter, who doted on the gorgeous young Iris. Eventually, Iris settled into her role as a national literary figure, giving interviews and speeches in which beautifully crafted sentences rolled off her tongue. Then, rather suddenly, she was stricken with Alzeimer's disease.I was reminded of my own grandparents' fight with Alzeimer's as I watched Judi Dench in Iris Murdoch's character. Like my grandmother, Iris lost contact with reality and life ceased to make sense to her; yet, there were moments when she let us know that she still treasured those who cared for her. Physically strong and able to go for long walks, Iris had stamina that far surpassed her capacity to understand. These are the cruel ironies of Alzeimer's disease. As John Bayley, James Broadbent was the loving and faithful husband, who gave his all until he reached his own breaking point and agreed to put her in a home.Other actors who appear are Samuel West and Timothy West (in a brief cameo) as Iris's friend and John's rival Maurice in youth and old age; Juliet Aubrey and Penelope Wilton, as her friend Janet.John Bayley's book about Iris's illness has produced a fine film with great acting and an honest treatment of a real-life situation.