Gleason is a decently effective sob-extraction mechanism, a nexus where sports fans and documentary enthusiasts alike can join to vent some ragged emotion. The film, which follows former football player Steve Gleason over the course of five years or so, during which he simultaneously succumbs to Lou Gehrig’s disease and experiences the joys of new fatherhood, is full of all the devastating and gladdening life beats you’d expect from both situations. And yet I was mostly unmoved.
The thing is, I’m honestly unsure whether this is the movie’s fault or my own. Cinephiles love to parrot Ebert’s line about how movies are machines built for empathy, but I sometimes wonder whether heavy film viewing has in some ways deadened my own sense of empathy, particularly when it comes to pain. There’s a numbing effect to seeing all manner of tragedy play out over and over,...
The thing is, I’m honestly unsure whether this is the movie’s fault or my own. Cinephiles love to parrot Ebert’s line about how movies are machines built for empathy, but I sometimes wonder whether heavy film viewing has in some ways deadened my own sense of empathy, particularly when it comes to pain. There’s a numbing effect to seeing all manner of tragedy play out over and over,...
- 7/28/2016
- by Daniel Schindel
- The Film Stage
- This year Ioncinema.com is covering the 2006 edition of the Sundance Film Festival Live from Park City, Utah. We’ll be on hand to cover the festival, and while we won’t be able to cover everything from A to Z: here is a comprehensive beforehand look at the selections in each of the festival’s sections. (Note: To access individual preview pages, simply click on the links below) January 19th to the 28th, 2006Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 19, 2006'); Docu Competition"American Blackout," Ian Inaba's assessment of the career of U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and the purported suppression of the black vote historically and in the 2004 election in Florida and Ohio. "Crossing Arizona," Joseph Mathew's mosaic of human stories enmeshed in Arizona's illegal immigration crisis. "God Grew Tired of Us," Christopher Quinn and Tom Walker's account of the culture shock that hits four Sudanese
- 1/17/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
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