What change did you see in the daughter’s reaction to the Alzheimer’s disease over the course of the film?
Movie: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
• This 1994 Academy Award-nominated documentary recounts one daughter ‘s attempts to come to terms with her mother’s advancing Alzheimer’s disease, Deborah Hoffmann explores the relationship between mother and daughter, parent and child. The film chronicles the various stages of a mother’s Alzheimer’s disease and the evolution of a daughter’s response to the illness.
Please answer question below.
1. What challenges emerge in the film?
2. How does the mother communicatively adapt to her own cognitive decline?
3. What did the daughter do to try to adapt to the communication challenges she was experiencing with her mother?
4. What change did you see in the daughter’s reaction to the Alzheimer’s disease over the course of the film?
5. Did you notice any positive changes in the relationship between the daughter and her mother that may not have happened without the Alzheimer’s disease?
6. How would this relationship have been different if the daughter’s evolution had not taken place?
7. How was humor a positive force between daughter and mother?
