Vortex (2021)
6/10
Not just a film about dementia
2 October 2023
Warning: Spoilers
While I was depressed by this film, which I guess was its intent, It was very insightful and at times uplifting. It was very predictable to see the frustration build in the husband of the wife with dementia. Somewhat weird to see that the woman who was one a psychiatrist has not been deregistered when she ceased to practice. How she is still prescribing herself pills under the knowledge of her family is kind of a strange and really out of place item in this film that really doesn't fit...

I couldn't work out whether she was poisoning her husband or not - the cocktail she made for him - it was not clear whether nor not he ever took it or not, but having a demented prescriber in the house was always going to be a very dangerous situation...

The fact the husband didn't have a medic alert disturbed me too, he was relying on a dementia patient for his wellbeing - a hypertensive smoker in poor health. I felt sorry for him.
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