So the family is supposed to be happy that her senility is shown world wide? That there is no respect for an elderly lady.
Brave new world, Huh?
Yes, That was my point: They made her out to be senile by emphasizing her rememberances that were shown as talking to her dead husband.
But visual hallucinations are not a sign of senility, and such things annoy me as a physician.... (they could be a result of temporal lobe epilepsy or a drug reaction, for example if she had recently started on medicine for Parkinson’s disease...but not Alzheimer’s).
It is a normal grief reaction to feel the presence of a recently deceased spouse. Even in the movie it shows her being aware that she isn’t “seeing” her husband (i.e. not a hallucination, but an imaginary discussion with her dead husband)...if they had pressented it a little different, as a dramatic way for her to review her life, it wouldn’t have been insulting at all...
The real problem with the movie is that it glosses over her life. If you know a lot about her life, you could see the snippets as part of her history, but for most folks outside the UK, the back and forth is confusing...