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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Dick Johnson is Dead (2020)

This is a sweet intimate documentary made by a daughter about her father's death. In it he dies a sudden and horrible death over and over again, and the point is to help the filmmaker deal with her father's death, as well as her own, and to help everyone else think about and deal with their own. The aegis for the project is that after watching her mother go through a long and drawn out decline from Alzheimer's disease, which was very traumatic for everyone because she lost everything, even knowing who she was, but certainly having no memory of her family, her father is diagnosed with dementia. He is forced to give up his practice, sell his home, and come to live with her in her tiny New York City apartment. The film is both very funny and very serious, and fortunately also very enjoyable. It was shortlisted for the 2021 Oscars, but did not make the cut for the final five, but is still very much worth watching.

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