The Sea Inside
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Belen Rueda, Francesco Garrido, Javier Bardem, Lola Duenas Director: Alejandro Amenabar Brand: NEW Line Home Video DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Catalan (Original Language); Galician (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Dubbed) Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: Widescreen, 2.35:1 Running Time: 125 minutes DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Model: N7840 Studio: New Line Home Video |
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Movie Reviews of The Sea Inside
Movie Review: When Life Is Not Enough?
Summary: 2 Stars
This film seems to want to have it both ways - offering the premise that not all disability is disposable - just Sampedro's.
An incredible amount of talent and creativity went into a film that pays homage to ... well, plainly put - a man that was too petulant to live. The movie presents Ramon Sampedro - a talented, intelligent and articulate man as someone who ultimately proves to be a self-pitying whiner.
It was not that he was not capable of living a life of accomplishment and satisfaction - he simply refused to. Despite the acclaim and admiration that his writing had brought to him, despite the devotion of those around him that loved and cared for him, Sampedro seems a bit like the child who gathers his marbles up from the playground and marches home because someone hadn't played by his rules. (Refusing a wheelchair? C'mon!)
Granted, the stress, humiliation and despair of being a quadriplegic cannot be minimalized nor discounted. However, giving up on what you may have once hoped your life would be for what it ultimately becomes proves to be difficult for all of us - no matter what the size or nature of our own personal challenges.
(Oddly enough the very limitations that he views as untenable are most likely the factors that pushed him to reach inside himself and find a voice that brought him such attention and celebrity. Imagine the platform that was his ... and was thrown away)
Yes, yes - allow the man to end his life if he is incapable of recognizing the gift that he squandered; let us be done with him if he so chooses. We should not, however, celebrate his cowardice - the easy out - this foolish waste of something precious. What an insult this film seems to those who struggle quietly everyday with half the talents, abilities or the emotional resources of devoted family and friends that were at Sampedro's disposal. Those gifts for which others could only envy, Sampedro discarded in self-indulgent and careless abandon. The joys that others could only dream about, he chose to reject.
It would be better instead for us to triumph with Stephen Hawking ("Brief History of Time"), Christy Brown ("My Left Foot") or Helen Keller ("The Miracle Worker") - each of whom had to face the equal of the challenges that Sampedro faced, but did not cower in resignation or mawkish self-absorption. Instead they rose above the limitations (those imposed on them either by themselves or those around them) and made all our lives better for their struggle.