Something the Lord Made
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Movie Reviews of Something the Lord Made
Movie Review: Something Wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a warm and well produced movie that you wouldn't ordinarily expect to find even on cable. The characters are clearly defined and the actors seem very cormfortable in their roles. The movie pull no punches in re-creating a period in American history that for most of us seem so distant. However the crowning acheivement to me is how all the pieces fit. From the costumes, the subtle evolution of time from the Thirties on through the Seventies as the movie progress. The content and medical theme hold your interest, but it's the personal relationship between Doctor and helper that drives this movie. All the actors did exceedingly well, but it was Mos Def with his effortless approach and execution that really rises above the ordinary. This is a very good movie and historically invaluable to anyone who doesn't mind going beyond that which is accepted as either truth or entertainment. This is a winner and I recommend it to all thinking people who wish to be enlightened and moved. Summing it up, this is not to be missed if you're missing and yearning for good, wholesome movies again.Movie Review: Excellent dramatization of a medical breakthrough
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie I am itching to show to the medical students I teach. The story of the first heart surgery (also the first pediatric heart surgery, just to make the accomplishment even more difficult) is put into context. I won't summarize the movie other than to say that issues of race, class, and gender were very important in this pioneering operation and led to the neglect of one of the key persons, Vivian Thomas, played with subtlety and skill by Mos Def. Dr. Blalock, played by the consistently excellent Alan Rickman, is portrayed neither as a do-good crusader or a black-hatted parasite but with the ambiguity and mental conflicts inherent in such an intelligent and ambitious character. A long-overdue recognition of Thomas' contributions ends the film and it would seem hackneyed were it not strongly based on true events.
Must-see for medical students, medical educators, and anyone interested in how the socially privileged were gradually forced to acknowledge the contributions of talented people who had been excluded from the mainstream of medical education.
Movie Review: Wonderful Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I agree with the other reviewers when they said that this movie really speaks to your heart and accurately shows us the social climate in the 30's and 40's. I really enjoyed the actor's performances in this movie as well.
But none of that is why I watched this movie. I have a 10 month old baby girl who was born with a severe congenital heart defect. She is a "blue baby" though her defect is different than the one the baby in the movie has. My daughter has undergone 2 open heart surgeries, with one more planned surgery in the future. Her first life-saving surgery was the Blalock-Taussig shunt. It was amazing to see how Dr. Blalock and Mr. Thomas pioneered open heart surgery. I felt so many emotions as I watched this movie but most of all I felt such gratitude for the work of Dr. Blalock, Dr. Taussig and Mr. Thomas - their efforts saved my daughter.
I highly recommend this movie. I had never heard of it until recently but I know that I would still have loved it even if it didn't affect me on such a personal level.
Movie Review: Must See. An Incredibly Beautiful and Moving Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this movie for Alan Rickman, just trying to watch all of his movies. I had, in no way, thought I'd be receiving something quite like this.
The beauty of this movie is in the emotions of frustration and creation. Its about the difference of helping someone and helping yourself. We meet extraordinary people every single day. Dr Alfred Blalock struggles with this conflict of being friends with Vivian Thomas, his lab assistant, and just using his talents to help himself.
Based on a true story, this movie focuses around Vivian and his talents in the art of refining and creating important surgeries. However, his inability to have an education stops him from raising his station in society any farther than it is.
Also, it isn't a "religious" movie by any means. However, the depth of some of the scenes within the movie are not without feeling. They are incredible, and I admit to shedding some tears in this one (which I don't normally do).
Definitely recommended.
Movie Review: WORTH TEN STARS
Summary: 5 Stars
Don Cheadle's work here shows why I feel he deserved the Oscar handed to Jamie Fox for his work that year. Talk about underrated! DC steadily keeps working, aptly executing myriad roles in many movies, kinda like Samuel Jackson, although I think it took SJ much longer to get starring roles -- more years in the business, I mean.
There's no fluff nor wasted time in this story. Everything advances the storyline. Rarely does Hollywood manage to tell someone's true life story without making this viewer feel they've taken too much creative license.
This is precisely the kind of story Hollywood SHOULD be telling, but very rarely does. There are so many such real-and-better-than-fiction stories available, but moviegoers keep settling for the same-old same-old.
The fact that they chose to show us the portrait of the actual person at the end was also very good. A reminder that this is someone's actual life.