It
happened sometime when you know any story, ever after you want to
hear that story again and again. And I can confidently say that this
is not only genuine just to listen some fairy tale again and again
but this is truthful for every chore which we heartily wished for.
When I talk about myself, I can say there 're a long list of movie
that I want to watch again and again, without tones a single moment
of deadening. While unfortunately I have had lost my all listed
movies from my HDD, I don't know by mistakenly or due to some HDD
malfunctioning. :-)
My
left foot is one of those movie that remind me the power of
willingness to overcome the human disability and bring a human being
as victor. I loved to watch this movie anytime and anywhere.
Yesterday while, watching “My left foot” after a long time I get
attached with the story again. It's the true story of Christy Brown,
who was born with cerebral palsy (A human disease I also heard
through this movie). He learned to paint and write with his only
controllable limb – his left foot, not without going through the
terrible feelings of failure and loneliness of doubt and isolation.
There are many unscripted stories for such human triumph, but maybe
due to respective reason's those all people was not able to present
him/her self to the world. Besides, all those stories and
achievements are an example for all human who have had everything to
do anything.
Christy
Brown, who was born in Dublin, in the year 1932, into a large poor
slum family of twenty-two children (Only 13 survived) and was the
ninth children of Mr. and Mrs. Brown family. He was born with
cerebral palsy, and his entire body was in struggle against him all
except the left foot, that only the part of his body he can control.
Christy's body was both twisted and paralyzed. He was unable to
communicate through recognizable speech. With his lips pulled over to
one side, his eyes wobbling upward in their sockets, he spoke in a
series of gutteral syllables that would be translated by his mother
and siblings always. "My Left Foot" charts Christy's life
from his earliest days until his greatest triumph.
The
film opens with Christy Brown, being taken to a charity event, where
he meets his handler, a nurse named Mary Carr. She begins reading his
autobiography, and the movie melted down in flashback. He could not
talk or walk but have support from his family, especially from his
mother and siblings. One day when his mother got storke, he was only
the person available at house, while watching his mother stroke, due
to his disability he even was able to get attention of neighbors that
turns to save his mother's life. The story paced up by the first time
when he drew squiggle to the first word “Mother” he ever written.
The story of Christy Brown is one of the great stories of human
courage and determination. He belongs on the same list with Helen
Keller.
Christy
is played in the early scenes by Hugh O'Conor and from his teenage
years onward by Daniel Day Lewis. The two actors fit together into
one seamless performance of surprising beauty and strength. The
impermanent of Daniel Day Lewis is outstanding and the only actor
who's capable to make maintain the class performance. He is the
epitome of a great actor, that could do any movie and turn it into a
great movie.
There
are too many movies that comes in this category and states the story
of human courage and determination, besides "My Left Foot"
is a great film for many reasons, but the most important is that it
gives us such a complete picture of a man's life. It is not an
inspirational movie, although it inspires. It is not a sympathetic
movie, although it inspires sympathy. It is the story of a stubborn,
difficult, blessed and gifted man who was dealt a bad hand, who
played it brilliantly, and who left us some good books, some good
paintings and the example of his courage. It must not have been easy
to live life with those all disabilities. But of course that would
have been a cruel exploitation of his weakness, and then, too,
Christy was a genius at instilling guilt. He was died at the age of
forty nine, in year 1981, eight years before the movie was made and
released.
My
Left Foot was splendid. Daniel Day-Lewis was riveting in the lead and
Jim sheridan is best as director. A must watch movie.
Regards
Dhitendra
Keep Smiling :-)
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