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Christy Brown
Christy Brown
I've always kept alive the intention to review this movie, but for one reason or another, this analysis may have been too long in the limbo of intentions. "My Left Foot ( Jim Sheridan, 1989) is a work of art that holds a message épatant, rabidly positive, an example of overcoming starring a man who refuses to live a captive of its limitations.
A major film its undeniable value (exquisite product of the British company Granada ) and have the interpretive monument built by Daniel Day-Lewis (perfect in the role of Christy Brown ) making a show of sincerity, this film resembles the formal counterpart of another controversial film, dense and deep, as "Mar adentro" ( Alejandro Amenabar, 2004). The award-winning versatile tape Hispanic-Chilean director dared to raise on the big screen a subject considered still taboo: euthanasia. His detractors accuse him Amenábar insisted on treating her as a hero of the controversial Ramón Sampedro, the quadriplegic committed Galician die to ease the torment of their existence.
Without actually performing the heights reached by Daniel Day-Lewis, in our humble opinion Javier Bardem also made an exceptional job, impeccable work that has been widely recognized and honored.
Ramón Sampedro Javier Bardem is From the medical point of view we can not dismiss an element that could prove crucial: Ramón Sampedro enjoyed a life completely healthy until age 25, when he suffered that terrible accident that would leave you paralyzed after diving into the troubling waters of Furnas As beach (A Coruña ).
True Ramón Sampedro, author of "Letters from Hell" By contrast, the Irish writer and painter Christy Brown came into the world with cerebral palsy irreversible. As we see in the film also aspired to normalcy in his life (including love), a circumstance that could recognize among his countless brothers and friends . Like Sampedro, autolytic ideas also came to hover over the uneasy existence of Christy.
Amenábar's film, however, shows a man conscious decision, perhaps perched on a radical position on the staff but never contemplated an ineffective rehabilitation treatment considering their results, just the opposite assumption shown by Jim Sheridan for "My Left Foot."
Daniel Day-Lewis in the skin of Christy Brown claim has never been this blog become the judge of his fellows; to better understand and Christy Brown Ramon Sampedro recommend a simple exercise: try to remain motionless on the bed for some time, moving only the head, or trying to make a drawing on paper by holding the pen with the fingers left foot ... Do not forget that the decisions of both patients were taken by free people and that every story, in turn, inspired a great film. Let's enjoy the movie ...
CHRISTY BROWN'S DISEASE
Based on the film, cerebral palsy experienced by this character probably complications arose during delivery (Dublin, June 5, 1932). Surely, fetal distress caused severe cerebral hypoxia in the newborn. A nurse was responsible for giving bad news to the portly Paddy Brown ( Ray McAnnaly ), a mason by profession and angry father of a large brood in which Christy ranked 10 th among 22 siblings, those who survived 13.
Christy Brown (1932 - 1981), poet and Irish painter
our hero's childhood passes in a monotone, virtually abandoned as a bundle under the stairs of his humble abode in the midst of a proletarian Irish Catholic family where the mother (Brenda Fricker impressive, awarded the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1989 ), despite remaining pregnant most of their reproductive life, plays a key role as the true home support. She lovingly protects his disabled son in penury save to buy a wheelchair, while everyone else take it for a poor sick useless, especially the father, who thinks Christy is also a moron, incapable of understanding and feeling .
note is the superb interpretation Christy does the young child actor Hugh O'Conor Dublin, which then had 14 years of age, and today continues to develop his successful career.
Hugh O'Conor is the young Christy Brown
In real life, Ms. Bridget Brown was the first that percartarse Christy's disability was physical only, without affecting their cognitive abilities, taking care to teach reading and writing. His brothers admitted as one in their raids for children and adolescents, always carrying the boy in an old invalid wooden wheelbarrow.
appears that Christy suffered a severe type of cerebral palsy athetoid , with tetraplegia almost completely, except precisely in his left foot. As reflected in the film the most characteristic symptoms of this disease are very frequent involuntary movements, which hinder or impede normal body dual motility, involvement of the tongue and slurred speech, accompanied by facial grimacing and also an abnormal muscle twitching limbs. It is estimated that the pathophysiological basis of this disorder lies in the damage of the basal ganglia brain.
Christy Brown (1932 - 1981), poet and Irish painter our hero's childhood passes in a monotone, virtually abandoned as a bundle under the stairs of his humble abode in the midst of a proletarian Irish Catholic family where the mother (Brenda Fricker impressive, awarded the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1989 ), despite remaining pregnant most of their reproductive life, plays a key role as the true home support. She lovingly protects his disabled son in penury save to buy a wheelchair, while everyone else take it for a poor sick useless, especially the father, who thinks Christy is also a moron, incapable of understanding and feeling .
note is the superb interpretation Christy does the young child actor Hugh O'Conor Dublin, which then had 14 years of age, and today continues to develop his successful career.
Hugh O'Conor is the young Christy Brown In real life, Ms. Bridget Brown was the first that percartarse Christy's disability was physical only, without affecting their cognitive abilities, taking care to teach reading and writing. His brothers admitted as one in their raids for children and adolescents, always carrying the boy in an old invalid wooden wheelbarrow.
appears that Christy suffered a severe type of cerebral palsy athetoid , with tetraplegia almost completely, except precisely in his left foot. As reflected in the film the most characteristic symptoms of this disease are very frequent involuntary movements, which hinder or impede normal body dual motility, involvement of the tongue and slurred speech, accompanied by facial grimacing and also an abnormal muscle twitching limbs. It is estimated that the pathophysiological basis of this disorder lies in the damage of the basal ganglia brain.
appears that his case was discovered by Mrs. Katriona McGuire, a social worker responsible for the poorer classes in the suburbs of Dublin. He probably visited the matriarch of the Brown while he was admitted to the hospital (the Rotunda Maternity Hospital , the first European maternity, founded in 1745) to give birth to a 21 º child. In the film, Christy would have 19 years ...
then contacted Katriona pediatrician and writer renowned Irish, Dr. Robert Collis, who took over boy's treatment. Subsequently, the two struck up a close friendship and even Collis would help write his autobiography, "My Left Foot (1954), a book that was based Jim Sheridan to write together with Shane Connaughton the script of this film.
An anecdote as subsection. Rotunda is located next door to the "Conway's Pub" , A famous shop where traditionally prospective parents drowned his impatience with a few pints of porter.
In Conway's ...
Since that trip to Ireland I keep in my library a copy of "Irish Masters of Medicine" (Editorial Town House) written by Prof. Dr. Davis Coakley , which devotes a chapter devoted entirely to the life of Dr. Collis.
This exceptional pediatrician, defended the colors of the Irish national rugby team while studying medicine, completed his specialization the prestigious John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (USA ) , was a contributor to the Red Cross children aiding prisoners of concentration camp Bergen-Belsen , after liberation by the allies (even adopted two of these kids). From 1957 he continued his career in Nigeria , becoming director of the department of pediatrics at the Medical School Nigerian of Ibadan . Medical vocational and restless after retiring worked partly in a colony of patients Dichpalli lepers (India ). He died in 1975. A real movie character ... but do not appear in this film. Will Dr. Eileen Cole (Fiona Shaw ) the fictional manager of the rehabilitation treatment of Christy Brown ...
A happy ending?
social recognition came to Christy Brown for his exceptional artistic skills. However, in the movie they suggest his problems with drinking, Expoliva for his disappointment in love. It is also licensed by the fictional character Mary nurse ( Ruth McCabe), which, like a flashback know the fascinating story of Christy as you read his autobiography. This figure would represent Mary Carr, wife of the protagonist's true. Both were married in 1972 and the film ends with a happily married couple looking Dublin from a hill.
The reality was quite different. According to the authorized biography published in 2007 by the English writer Georgina Hambleton ( Mainstream Publishing - Edinburgh), Mary Carr was a former prostitute before she married bisexual had lived in London (1968 - 1969) with one of the friendly Sean Brown, brother of Christy. She abused alcohol and drugs. Both have met at a party in London in 1971.
Mary & Christy, "happy times?
Our protagonist died in 1981, smothered in dark circumstances. His health had been deteriorating steadily. Mary was the cause of family estrangement Chisty. The couple lived drunk and say that at the time of the postmortem examination, there were multiple wounds. Mary Carr died in 2006.
then contacted Katriona pediatrician and writer renowned Irish, Dr. Robert Collis, who took over boy's treatment. Subsequently, the two struck up a close friendship and even Collis would help write his autobiography, "My Left Foot (1954), a book that was based Jim Sheridan to write together with Shane Connaughton the script of this film.
An anecdote as subsection. Rotunda is located next door to the "Conway's Pub" , A famous shop where traditionally prospective parents drowned his impatience with a few pints of porter.
In Conway's ... This exceptional pediatrician, defended the colors of the Irish national rugby team while studying medicine, completed his specialization the prestigious John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (USA ) , was a contributor to the Red Cross children aiding prisoners of concentration camp Bergen-Belsen , after liberation by the allies (even adopted two of these kids). From 1957 he continued his career in Nigeria , becoming director of the department of pediatrics at the Medical School Nigerian of Ibadan . Medical vocational and restless after retiring worked partly in a colony of patients Dichpalli lepers (India ). He died in 1975. A real movie character ... but do not appear in this film. Will Dr. Eileen Cole (Fiona Shaw ) the fictional manager of the rehabilitation treatment of Christy Brown ...
A happy ending?
social recognition came to Christy Brown for his exceptional artistic skills. However, in the movie they suggest his problems with drinking, Expoliva for his disappointment in love. It is also licensed by the fictional character Mary nurse ( Ruth McCabe), which, like a flashback know the fascinating story of Christy as you read his autobiography. This figure would represent Mary Carr, wife of the protagonist's true. Both were married in 1972 and the film ends with a happily married couple looking Dublin from a hill.
The reality was quite different. According to the authorized biography published in 2007 by the English writer Georgina Hambleton ( Mainstream Publishing - Edinburgh), Mary Carr was a former prostitute before she married bisexual had lived in London (1968 - 1969) with one of the friendly Sean Brown, brother of Christy. She abused alcohol and drugs. Both have met at a party in London in 1971.
Mary & Christy, "happy times? Our protagonist died in 1981, smothered in dark circumstances. His health had been deteriorating steadily. Mary was the cause of family estrangement Chisty. The couple lived drunk and say that at the time of the postmortem examination, there were multiple wounds. Mary Carr died in 2006.
FOR MORE ...
recommend visiting the link below for the excellent "Journal of Medicine and Movies" , a true collection a must to understand how film has been discussed in cerebral palsy:
http://campus.usal.es/ ~ revistamedicinacine/Indice_2005/OBRA/PRINCIPAL21.htm
And finally, a gift to our ears, though the film's music was composed and conducted by Maestro Elmer Bernstein , the opening credits of this film appear on the musical background "A romantic aura" , aria belonging to comic opera "Cosi fan tutte" of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . Here is a superb interpretation thereof by the Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda :
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