The Sea Inside
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Movie Reviews of The Sea Inside
Movie Review: Richly deserving of its Academy Award
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll watch anything with Javier Bardem. Check him out as Reinaldo Arenas in Julian Schnabel's "Before Night Falls," or as gangland boss Felix in the recent Michael Mann thriller "Collateral" (the confrontation between Jamie Foxx and Bardem is the movie's best scene (in a film with many of them).
Here in Alejandro Amenábar's "Mar Adentro" (Sea Inside), he ages 30 years to play quadraplegic rights activist Ramón Sampedro. That DVD cover image of a hale and hearty Bardem glancing over his left shoulder? That's about 1/50th of this movie (at most). Bardem spends much of the movie behind an excellent make-up job as a very convincing 50-ish, bed-ridden individual who must convey every meaning with just a slight nuance of facial expression. It's quite a feat.
Amenábar's script brings out the dignity in Sampedro. No surprise given his work in penning 'The Others' and 'Open Your Eyes' (which Cameron Crowe later bollixed up as 'Vanilla Sky'). 'Sea Inside' richly deserves its 2004 Academy Award for best foreign film. Don't miss it.
Movie Review: A beautiful piece of film-making
Summary: 5 Stars
With the talents of Director Amenabar and actor Javier Bardem, this movie was undoubtebly going to be at the very least, good. I was initially not too excited about the subject matter of a quadraplegic wishing to end his life, etc. But within minutes of watching, I was captivated by the beauty of of this movie seems to celebrate the gift of life more thn anything I've seen in recent years. Of particular note is the cinematography - for the mostpart, this movie is set in the confines of the main characters bedroom or the local village. However, on certain ocassions, there are some very tasteful 'dream/fantasy sequences' where Bardem imagines himself flying out of the window, over the Galician hills, to the bright blue sea where he is walking again on the beach. The way it comes out is seemless and adds a depth to this movie yet the movie in no way, ever requests your sympathy and carefully sticks to the path of telling a balanced view on the whole 'right to die' situation. Watch this Movie!!!Movie Review: Quite Moving, Indeed.
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched this movie for the second time. It's been in my collection for over a year now and I finally got a buddy to watch it with me. He was apprehensive to watch this movie because of the sensitive subject matter. I sort of tricked him into watching it tonight and he loved it. I'm so glad to have rediscovered this film already in my collection.
I could relate to some degree with what it's like to live with someone who is disabled as my father suffered from Muscular Dystrophy. MD is a degenerative disease which tragically people succumb to after a arduously long degenerative battle. This story will hit a nerve for the loved ones who have or have had family members affected with a degenerative disease.
I thought the movie was exceptionally well done. A story well told which managed to extract a few tears here and there from me. This is a story poetically directed and expressed about the elegiac life changing misfortune that Sampedro endured.
Movie Review: This film is really appealing.
Summary: 5 Stars
It is a film about "live dignifiedly." Ramon, the main role in this movie, had been struggling for his disease, quadriplegia, for over 30 years. He thought that it was not life, so he sought for euthanasia.
This is a special issue. What this movie wants to tell us is about life and death. A person who lives happily can't imagine why there are people seeking for death, but Ramon did. Though it is an issue about death, I think the director still praised the beauty of life. We can see how happy Ramon was when he flied through the grass and the sea. From his fighting with the obstacles, he seemed to have a new attitude toward life. He always smiled at people who came to visit him; people around him all liked him. However, he'd said that when you couldn't escape what you faced, and when you had to lean on other people, all you could do is smiling instead of crying. I think that's also what the director wanted to show us.
Movie Review: Thought provoking
Summary: 5 Stars
It is one of the best movies I have ever seen. It's about life, death and love. This film was based on a true story. It's about Ramon Sampedro who lived in Spain. He did not want to live as a quadriplegic and fought 30 years for his right to die. So many people wanted to identify him as a quadriplegic and his wishes the same as other quadriplegic. He wanted to be seen as an individual and his wishes as only his wishes. He was an active man who found life as an inactive person unbearable. He only spoke for himself. He was highly intelligent man and realized that every person has their own reason why they wanted to live or die. And he was only a spokesperson for himself. He believed in living his life rationally but in tune with his emotions. Yet he realized that other people lived and saw life differently and respected their differences. He just wanted others to understand his way of seeing life.