《永生的海拉》剧情介绍
该影片改编自Rebecca Skloot的纪实文学作品，讲述上世纪五十年代一位名叫Henrietta Lacks的黑人女性的故事。Henrietta在身患癌症期间，她的细胞被医学研究者非法获取，这一行为却意外地引发了医学史上的重大突破——这些细胞成为了第一株「不死的」人体干细胞，对现代医学发展产生了深远影响。影片的主人公是Henrietta的女儿Deborah Lacks（由奥普拉·温弗瑞饰演），她试图理解母亲Henrietta的一生，并探究她与现代医学之间的复杂联系。与此同时，年轻的女记者Rebecca Skloot（由Rose Byrne饰演）正在深入调查Henrietta的故事及其「不死细胞」的传奇。在长达十多年的调查过程中，Rebecca与Deborah建立了深厚的友谊，并最终完成了《Henrietta Lacks的不朽人生》这一传世之作。这本书不仅登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜首并停留四年之久，还深刻揭示了医学界的傲慢与种族、贫穷等社会问题。影片通过Henrietta、Deborah与Rebecca三人之间的故事，展现了「最不可能成为朋友的人」如何建立起「最深厚的友谊」，并共同完成了对Henrietta Lacks不朽生命的致敬。
《永生的海拉》影评:
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《永生的海拉》是根据RebeccaSkloot的纪实文学改编的电影，讲述了海拉·拉克斯的故事。海拉·拉克斯是一位上世纪五十年代身患癌症的黑人女性，她的癌细胞被非法获取并被用于医学研究。这些细胞被称为“不死的”细胞，对医学界有重大影响。电影主要围绕海拉·拉克斯的女儿黛博拉展开，她试图理解自己从未见过的母亲，并研究她与现代医学发展之间的关联。电影深入揭示了医学界存在的问题，并探讨了友谊和人类情感的力量。这部电影不仅带来了悬疑和传记的刺激，还让观众思考医学界的伦理和道德问题。
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I have to say that I was not moved at all. They seem to care about only money and kept going after financial compensations, not justice. Any family without a mother will have problems around it, no matter how the mother died or whether she turned into an immortal cell line or not. So save the pity. I wish the movie could educate more on the medical regulations back then and today. The movie did not detail on the drug tests they did on their mother or sister and should have spent more time on it instead of having Oprah showing off her ability of playing hysteric. These people have very little basic biology/medical knowledge and it can be extremely hard to teach them and make sure they stay objective about science and knowledge. They are after the money. They don't understand medicine or science. That's it.If no consent was required from patient back then, they cannot sue Johns Hopkins.
If it's just about donating a little cancer tissue for research, I don't think, even today, the patient gets any specific financial compensation for that. It does not matter what your little biopsy turns out to be in 50 years or longer. I don't see a lot of other unhumane drug tests described in the movie. It's all about Oprah's emotions, not history or science.
Oprah's performance is too dramatic. If the movie is about racism, then make it about racism. And that did not seem to be the center of the movie either.
Johns Hopkins did mis-reported the name of the patient in the first place, and called it Helen Lane. (For quite a while during my research career, I thought it was Helen...) They should do something about it. And I feel sorry about it, too.
When HBO first released the movie, I thought they were going to make a very objective documentary instead of this sh*t. Isn't it true that HBO is good at showing good documentaries? What happened to them wasting money on this...
Just want to be fair from the perspective of a medical researcher. Please don't take anything personally.