Vivian

Wit, Starring Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M. Woodward, Harold Pinter directed by Mike Nichols we initially begin the film with a scene where Dr. Harvey Kelekian diagnoses Professor Bearing, also known as Vivian, that ultimately sets up the tone for the rest of the film. With only knowing some logistics of the film to begin we may think that the film will come to tell a story of survival, rather, the movie comes to deconstruct the idea the typical tale of

can. Once you see me, you’re swallowed into the jaws of death. It’s a miserable job, but someone has to do it. Today is a particularly miserable day because I have to go to a care home the home of the living dead. I had to retrieve a human called Vivian. I looked at her papers. Her life was as intricate as a Michelangelo painting; a life well lived, however every detail beautifully crafted. She had the freedom which I never had and probably never will. I had arrived at the care home. It was decorated;

learn that Vivian Bearing has been diagnosed with a terminal cancer. As she was chatting with a nurse about her illness, she realized that death could be here sooner rather than later. Vivian starts looking back on her life, and what she wishes she could have changed. As a college professor she took up studying and analyzing plays, particularly John Donne, and doesn’t seem to care all that much about her students. As the play goes on, kindness starts to become an attribute that Vivian craves more

“I think you owe it to Jefferson,” Vivian told me one out of the blue, “He’d want for you to read it. He told Paul to give it to you on that day.” We had been sitting in sitting room, watching the kids keep to themselves on the floor. I knew what she was talking about. She wanted me to read Jefferson’s journal. “I don’t think I can do it,” I told her. “I’m not as strong as he was. I give him that journal for his thoughts. I never had any intention of reading that book.” “Head into town to talk to

The photographer Vivian Maier is an interesting woman and her photographs are even more intriguing. Vivian was born in New York City in February of 1926 and in 2009 she passed away. She was born to a French mother and an Austrian father. She is known today as an American street photographer and many of her photos were taken on the streets of NYC and Chicago. While growing up Maier spent the majority of her life in France. In 1949, while she was still in France she got her hands on her first camera

In Vivian Sobchack’s “The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience” she discusses the consciousness ability to associate a visible representation of metaphorical constructions that humans are accustomed to in everyday life can translate on the big screen. The images that one sees in everyday life is manipulated according to the body and mind of the observer similar to the way imagery in movies affects the viewer personally. Sobchack creates an interesting argument when she speaks on

In the movie wit, Vivian Bearing was a strict, hardcore English teacher who has been determined to have terminal ovarian cancer. During the movie, she thinks about her responses to the cycle the malignancy takes, the medications, and huge occasions throughout her life. She went to the hospital for eight month treatment. The individuals that watch over her are Jason Posner, who just discovers confidence in being a specialist; Susie Monahan, a medical attendant with a human side that is the one and

Vivian Laurette can’t find a single thing to write about for the New York Times, where she works as a writer/reporter, and rather strict, but good hearted, boss, Michael Downing, has even threatened to fire her if she doesn’t find something to write about soon. Vivian begins to get desperate, what with working shifts at the Bake My Day café, and trying to find information for the Italian government. She decides to grab an airplane and head to Washington D.C. to try and look for any interesting happening

Finding Vivian Maier is a very intriguing documentary film that traces and hunts the life story of Vivian Maier. She was a nanny that happened to be a street photographer in Chicago, who has taken more than 100,000 photographs. John Maloof—a Chicago historian—wrote, directed, and produced the film with the help of Charlie Siskel. It all started when Maloof came across a box full of negatives at an auction while doing some research. The auction house gave him the name “Vivian Maier” as the name of

blunt disregard for patient well being and know-it-all self-absorbed professionals as displayed by the research physicians. It seems that the only person who truly cares for Vivian is her primary care nurse, Susie, who is not as self- absorbed as the other healthcare professionals and someone who simply wants to provide Vivian the consistent healthcare that comes along with her professional obligations together with basic human decency. The concept of human