Dick Johnson is Dead: Netflix tackles death and dementia

The premise to Netflix’s new film, Dick Johnson is Dead, is simple. Documentarian Kirsten Johnson’s father, the eponymous Dick, is diagnosed with dementia, so to work through the grief, loss and impending death, she decides to chronicle the last few years of his life all the while staging her father’s death over and over again in an elaborate series of violent accidents all punctuated by fantasy scenes in heaven.