The film entitled Wit, is about an English literature professor, Vivan Bearing, who is diagnosed with stage four metastatic ovarian cancer at the age of 48 years old. Her lives work was about deciphering the work of at 1700 century poet John Donne, she was a strict no nonsense professor, and her course was known as being one of the most challenging courses at the university. The film reflects on her experiences as a cancer patient suffering eight rounds of experimental chemotherapy over the course of eight months. Bearing reflects on her life during this time, discussing her suffering with chemotherapy, current condition, and the healthcare system. She reflects on her past and wonders if she could have been more compassionate to her students. She continues to reflect on John Donne’s poet of the holy sonnets about the meaning of death as she is dying from cancer. In dying she seeks the human compassion she didn’t give to her student from a nurse named Susie throughout the film. Nurse Susie give Vivian dignity and respect as she comes to the end of her life.
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