Monday Movie Meme - Somebody's there but Nobody's Home
Monday, June 24, 2013 at 10:35PM
Nicole in Memes, Moday Movie Meme

Last week was a dud, where my updating of the Monday Movie Meme is concerned. I apologize for the delay; let’s get this thing back in business, shall we?! The theme for this week’s meme is fairly a pretty straightforward -- but challenging (for me, at least) one: Nobody’s Home.

Share on your blog or in the comments section, movies featuring somebody who is brain dead or in a vegetative state.

The person who fits this bill would have to be clinically diagnosed as having little to no brain function. This would likely mean that he or she is also hospitalized, but that does not necessarily have to be the case -- especially in scenes or situations where people are receiving home visits from their doctors, or being assessed out in the field on their state of health, or something like that.

Here is my one selection (Yes, that’s right...I am even having difficulty thinking of more than one movie that fits this topic) for this week’s Nobody’s Home theme.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

I am not sure how accurate my selection is, since I didn’t read the book that this movie is based on. There is a scene in the 2011 version starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, however, where the Lisabeth character (played by Mara) visits her former Guardian after he had a stroke. She talks to him but he doesn’t respond to her in any way, so if I’m not mistaken, I believe that he was in some sort of vegetative state following his stroke. I’m going out on a limb here with my movie pick this week, so correct me if I’m wrong...

What movies featuring brain dead people, or those in a vegetative state, would YOU add to the list?

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