Should you watch Dick Johnson Is Dead?
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Dick Johnson Is Dead
Documentary · 2020
With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.
The sides of Dick Johnson Is Dead
- A daughter filming her father's last years
- Staged deaths with stunt doubles
- A father living with dementia
Dick Johnson Is Dead is good for you if…
- you can laugh at a daughter staging her father's death again and again.
- you want to be moved by a father and daughter saying goodbye.
- you like a close, playful bond between a father and his daughter.
Dick Johnson Is Dead is bad for you if…
- you can't watch a parent's memory fade right now.
- you'd rather a documentary stay plain, without staged scenes of heaven.
About: death · memory · father and daughter
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