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Wit

Wit In the film Wit, directed by Mike Nichols, Emma Thompson (Vivian Bearing) is portrayed as a woman professor who had dedicated her life to teaching and studying John Donne and his sonnets. She was about 48 years old and was diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer. This film showed us some of the hard decisions that Vivian had to make such as when she agrees to the radical and painful chemotherapy. The film showed us the changes she went through like in her body and mind (hair, weakness, weight, color etc.). Wit was a difficult and heartbreaking film to watch. By the end of the fist scene I knew where the film was headed just by technique and tone. I mean how many films have you seen with a woman diagnosed with cancer, have a happy ending. Most of the action takes place in Vivian’s bed. There are a lot of close-ups on Vivian. The camera was all in her face even while throwing up. This film reminds me of one of my favorite movies Ferris Beuler’s Day Off . How, at times it was as if he was speaking right to the camera and the viewers. In the film Vivian would flash back into her past and her past went into her future. For example when she thinks about being a little girl her adult self appears in the childhood setting. I also thought I saw a role-reversal, Vivian was once a proud professor and instructor and is now the passive pupil. Her primary doctors didn’t care about how she was feeling, just how their work on her was going. They thought of her as their guinea pig. In the film Vivian meets a nurse named Susie, who cares about how she is feeling and sees Vivian as a person and not a project she always respects her and soothes her. This is how the director shows the viewers his favoritism toward females. You can also feel the filmmaker didn’t like the medical profession much by the way he exposed the bad sides of the two male doctors. The filmmaker seemed to have a lot of respect for the teaching profession though. Toward the end there was a scene where Vivian’s teacher appears and soothes her. Is that real or imagined? In the end Vivian dies and Susie is there with her to show her that someone does care and to make it a peaceful death. It is very hard to watch the cancer take its toll through out the whole movie. I could just imagine how painful and what they actually go through themselves. In the 7th grade my best friends mother was diagnosed with cancer. It was so hard at times for me to see her mother, but after all she was still just Mrs. Dimelle. I tried so hard to help my friend through it. In the 8th grade one morning her mother pasted away. I practically spent more time at my friends house than mine, so I was pretty close to her mother. Her death hit a lot of people. Throughout her last year of life I saw what she went through and what the people around her also went through. This film was so true. It was as if it wasn’t a film at all. Although I cried practically during the whole movie, I enjoyed seeing the Bibliography:

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