You're trying to assess character relationships. From the beginning, you're dropped into a scenario that announces to you not to fully trust your eyes and ears.

It sounds like the movie might be an overwhelming downer, and most assuredly it will leave an emotional devastation, but it's also a very fascinating experience. It makes for an engaging and constantly changing environment and one tailored to engrossing empathy. We're only getting impressions and glimmers and some of them are non-linear, where we'll get the context of a scene after the start of a scene, so it challenges a viewer to be constantly trying to contextualize what we're seeing with what we know, and it's an ongoing puzzle to determine a slippery orientation. I think there's a benefit to the audience knowing so little of Anthony before his illness we do not know what variation of this man is the honest, lucid version from before. He had an apartment he lived in for thirty years, there's definitely hints that a younger daughter had an accident and is no longer alive, and he listens to opera quite frequently. Not much is known about Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) before his gradual mental decline. It's a deeply empathetic and heartbreaking experience that works as a puzzle to decode but also as a character piece on the end of one ordinary man's life. The Father is based on a play by director Florian Zeller.

Film is inherently an immersive experience with a defined point of view, and I always thought it could be helpful in illuminating what it would be like to lose a sense of time, memory, and place as memories blend together and fragment. The Father is the kind of movie I've been clamoring for years from Hollywood, an Alzheimer's empathy experiment using the rigors of a visual medium to place a viewer inside the mind of someone haunted by this debilitating mental illness.

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