Do you want to get a leg up on your fellow Oscar-pool competitors? Do you want to watch a movie that can effectively use the words "sexy" and "quadriplegic" in the same sentence? I know you do.
Tonight on A&E, Murderball will be aired at 8pm and again and midnight (at least here in Denver). I was really lucky to have been able to attend a special screening of the film last spring. It is about the quadriplegic rugby team that represented the US (plus a little about those pesky Canadians) in the Paralympics. The movie follows principally about 4 players of the team, plus one megolomaniac coach, the basics of the sport, and about the challenges that being disabled brings to a man. It also shows the positives of being disabled as well, which is perhaps the most shining and mindblowing message the movie brings. It's fascinating, and the sport is really exciting. The doc also succeeds in widening its scope, showing the beginning of one man's journey after an accident causing a four-limb disability, as well as visiting the Walter Reid hospital in Bethesda, MD to remind us how many among us, with the war brewing on and on, are battling, surviving and living with disabilities.
Murderball gets my vote for best doc on Sunday night, but the only other doc I saw this year was March of the Penguins. That said, I have a feeling that my 2 for 5 is far better than most of the academy voters, and we'll see one of those adorable little penguins accepting an oscar before the film makers who introduced us to the champions in this film...
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that is so great! i wish i had cable. i did recently watch the doc again because i love it so much. those guys are hot and the disability message is not one of triumph over something, but one of dealing with life as it happens. go murderball!
You are so right, Jaci. I watched it and couldn't believe that I'd forgotten they men's brutal honesty in the film. The guys hold nothing back, and why should they? They're just living! It is so good because it is not a triumph over adversity story.
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