Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory is a 2014 American documentary film directed and produced by Michael Rossato-Bennett.

It discusses that the elderly community are on the decline in social status and that western society neglects old age to idealize youth.

She was visited by a volunteer musician, Samite Mulondo, who described the music as an outlet to release her frustrations.

[10] Steve: He was a patient with multiple sclerosis whose childhood and adulthood was filled with his love for music and the instruments he played.

Rob Nelson in his review for Variety said that "Michael Rossato-Bennett captures some amazingly transformative results in the treatment of dementia through music.

"[8] He writes that the "over-the-top narration often sounds cloying and banal," but Nelson endorses the medical and historical context of the film.

[15] Steve Greene from Indiewire said that "Alive Inside provides a sense of idealism amid bleak situations.

When discussing the impact of music on an environment so often typified by isolation, one of the patients describes his desire for freedom.

"[16] He says the film is "scattered but moving", adding that "The most potent emotional response comes from the mixture of joy, gratitude and recognition of the passage of time visible on a handful of respondents' faces as they're experiencing a song from their younger days.