Tragic, incurable diseases tightly grasp the lives of people who once thought they had it all. Still Alice and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly are two movies that tell the experience of living with a neurological disease. Both explore themes of relationships and individual hardship, providing insight to the reality of the illness. The two movies evoke powerful emotional responses, as the viewers sympathize with the main characters who struggle through relearning how to live their once normally functioning lives. At times, the emotional difficulty of living with the disease becomes overwhelming and the characters face the decision of choosing life or death. Though the stories are portrayed in drastically different manners, one focusing on
