The Sea Inside
by Alejandro Amen?bar
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Actor: Bel?n Rueda, Celso Bugallo, Javier Bardem, Lola Due?as, Mabel RiveraDirector: Alejandro Amen?bar
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Javier Aguirresarobe
Editor: Alejandro Amen?bar
Producer: Alejandro Amen?bar
Writer: Alejandro Amen?bar
Producer: Emiliano Otegui
Producer: Fernando Bovaira
Writer: Mateo Gil
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Catalan (Original Language); Galician (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Product features:
- Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) delivers a powerful and sensitive portrayal of a quadriplegic who fights to win the right to end his life with dignity. Based on a true story.Running Time: 125 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?PG-13 Age:?794043784026 UPC:?794043784026 Manufacturer No:?N7840
Movie Reviews of The Sea Inside
Movie Review: Life Examined
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched "The Sea Inside" last night with a minimum of expectations. My interest was based on knowing that it was about a quadriplegic since I am happily married to a quadriplegic woman. By the time the movie was over, I had been thoroughly immersed in an emotionally absorbing drama of a man and his struggles with his physical limitations. In the course of the movie, I became very impressed with the level of character development and the quality of the relationships that emerged in the film. The dialogue was first rate, the acting was superb and the director, well, Alejandro Amenabar was involved in virtually all aspects of the film. I even noticed that he had the lone credit as the Musical Director. This film is a masterpiece.
Unfortunately, "The Sea Inside" leads, for me, to an unwanted conclusion. That does not take anything away from the quality of the film. It's just that I was like Rosa; wanting to explain everything I could to change Ramon's mind (not respecting the fact that he had spent 28 years making this decision). In reality, the quality of the charater and relationship development was the source of the reasons to persevere. Why back out when love is all around you. All viewers will be challenged to judge Ramon's decision but none can honestly deny that "The Sea Inside" gives a pretty comprehensive examination of his wishes.
I thought about "The Sea Inside" and how it compares to Eastwood's "Millian Dollar Baby". I thought "Million Dollar Baby" was a 5 Star film in it's brilliant depiction of Eastwood's character sacrificing everything he believed in to honor his friend's wishes. "The Sea Inside" has that very same scenario but it also has so much more.
Summary of The Sea Inside
Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls) delivers a powerful and sensitive portrayal of a quadriplegic who fights to win the right to end his life with dignity. Based on a true story.DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Director CommentaryDeleted Scenes:Documentaries:"A trip to The Sea Inside" Making-ofStoryboards:Theatrical Trailer:
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2004, The Sea Inside is a life-affirming film about a man who wishes to die. That may seem like a massive contradiction, but in the hands of director Alejandro Amen?bar (Open Your Eyes, The Others) and actor Javier Bardem (Before Night Falls), this fact-based Spanish drama concerns the final days of Ram?n Sampedro, the quadriplegic poet who waged a controversial campaign for his right to die. He was denied this right for 30 years, and ultimately arranged for his own assisted suicide, but this remarkable film--and Bardem's keenly intelligent performance--examines the hotly-debated issue of assisted suicide with admirable depth and humanity, just as Sampedro did until his death in 1998. For Sampedro, death was preferable to severe paralysis (he even refused to use a wheelchair), but the film does not suggest a "disposable" attitude toward disability. Instead, it's a thoughtful meditation on life and love as gifts to be cherished, and a challenging drama that begs each viewer to examine their own personal beliefs about what makes life worth living. You may not agree with Sampedro and his ultimate denial of life, but The Sea Inside will urge you to ponder how you would react under similar circumstances, and that makes it a profoundly meaningful film. --Jeff Shannon
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