Netflix’s “Dick Johnson Is Dead” is a profound and deeply personal portrait of the director Kirsten Johnson’s examination of her father, Richard Johnson (lovingly known as “Dick”), a retired clinical psychiatrist who is suffering from dementia and his inevitable end. <br /><br />Beginning as an attempt to make the impending loss of her father bearable for both him and herself, Johnson fashions nearly a dozen fake death scenarios, including falling down a flight of stairs and dropping an air conditioner from an apartment building. The 55-year-old filmmaker brings about the most enriching and beautiful questions regarding our own mortality and what we choose to do with the time given to us.
