[UFV] Murderball
Premise: on or around Sept 2nd I will go to see "The Aristocrats", a movie about the dirtiest joke that was ever told. Brace in for the review.
Murderball, by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro (2005)
Nice documentary about a *violent* sport for quadruplegic people: murderball, which is played on special "reinforced" wheelchairs and a great deal of agonism.
The movie directors make an effort to give the viewers a complete picture of the life of the athletes. The message is clear: life in conditions of physical discomfort is a life that is *whole*.
Fairly well shot, it follows the US national team and the american trainer of the *canadian* team (there is a story of hurt pride behind this) through some international competitions - and explores the life of some of the protagonists; there is some suspence as well: will the canadians beat the US team and will be their american trainer able to demonstrate that he had been unjustly excluded from the US team?
It is a movie that is not close to the most common experience, though it has as well a more general theme to offer: sport as a way to socialize and as light-hearted fun; I leave to you the comparison with the "seriousness" perceived in sports in other context.
Murderball, by Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro (2005)
Nice documentary about a *violent* sport for quadruplegic people: murderball, which is played on special "reinforced" wheelchairs and a great deal of agonism.
The movie directors make an effort to give the viewers a complete picture of the life of the athletes. The message is clear: life in conditions of physical discomfort is a life that is *whole*.
Fairly well shot, it follows the US national team and the american trainer of the *canadian* team (there is a story of hurt pride behind this) through some international competitions - and explores the life of some of the protagonists; there is some suspence as well: will the canadians beat the US team and will be their american trainer able to demonstrate that he had been unjustly excluded from the US team?
It is a movie that is not close to the most common experience, though it has as well a more general theme to offer: sport as a way to socialize and as light-hearted fun; I leave to you the comparison with the "seriousness" perceived in sports in other context.
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posted by JTS at
Friday, August 26, 2005
5 Comments:
Regarding The Aristocrats, I've never quite understood many comedian's and cringe humor fan's fetish for vulgarity - I think they mistake it for honesty. It's like punk, where any consideration of musicality can be seen as comercially motivated and a betrayal of authentic art.
Also, it might be like that film, Looking for Richard, which was more about how actors work than the movie it was documenting.
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Mike Beversluis, at 26 August, 2005 14:22
In fact the best "dirty" jokes are the ones in which there is no vulgarity.
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JTS, at 26 August, 2005 19:04
Do you know any of those, or just your normal dirty jokes?
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Mike Beversluis, at 26 August, 2005 19:14
Both kinds. But you chose to remember only the vulgar ones.
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JTS, at 27 August, 2005 16:21
They _were_ more memorable. :^)
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Mike Beversluis, at 27 August, 2005 18:42
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