heatherwz Review of Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007 TV Movie)

Could you reach out ... befriend ... and accept a person time and circumstance has destroyed

[8/10 · 15 October 2008]

I usually don't enter comments on movies but, for this I had to to ask all viewers to place themselves in the life of someone who's darkest days will carve forever who they are into their soul in the most tragic way. Could you try to begin to understand without judgment? Could you bare witness to one's self destruction up close and personal and accept that all they will take from you is understanding and acceptance, no help for they will not choose to life? So many times we mistreat people like Stuart... we fail to understand to them to offer them our hand if only for a minute, just to treat a human like a human.... This was a fantastic movie. Stuart even in his drunken and for the most part hard to understand words made me hope that this movie would have a rainbow at the end, that he would recognize his importance to the world that had gone terribly wrong for him. He was a lovable character even in his dizziest state. He was intelligent and caring just not to himself. If you truly do what you must at times, which is struggle to understand what he says you will recognize his intelligence. He could focus to create change in something, he could decide to take a bull by the horns and fight for something as he does when the two individuals who help the homeless that are wrongfully imprisoned. Saving himself however was not something Stuart would have considered. The end leaves you questioning what really happened. Give this movie a shot. Dare to compare yourself to Alexander. Pose a tough question to yourself, how do you really treat others? I mean everyone... not just the homeless drunk but, the girl who made your burger at the drive-thru take away ... the fella who cleaned the bathroom at your office. We have become a society who are so self absorbed and self serving.. Could you pass the man on the street like Stuart and in the quiet of your own head throw a blessing to help that person find a light in the dark ?.. or do you pass them in disgust mumbling what a worthless human he is, treating them as societies throw a ways? This film was amazingly well acted, touching, and in the end I wished I could thank Alexander for his unconditional never judgmental way of living with and loving Stuart.