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The film doesn't have a lot of fancy production values but the story it tells is amazing.
Craig Wilson, an American lawyer in his mid-40s living in Bangkok, takes up boxing because he needs some exercise. He is more and more drawn into the sport until he finds he is competing regularly, and often defeating opponents half his age. Craig gets sick, first with ulcerative colitis and then colon cancer, and after a colostomy, returns to the ring, where he rebuilds the strength to continue his recovery (wearing a foul protector over his ostomy bag).
Some parts of the film are not for the squeamish -- the physical aftermath of colon cancer isn't pretty -- but Craig's indomitable spirit blazes from every frame. The film includes interviews with Craig's doctor, coach, friends, sparring partners, and even his housekeeper, each of whom has his or her own path to being at peace with Craig's circumstances, but who accept him and cherish him as he is.
(FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a college friend of Craig Wilson, so I'm not unbiased. But you really should see this film.)
Craig Wilson, an American lawyer in his mid-40s living in Bangkok, takes up boxing because he needs some exercise. He is more and more drawn into the sport until he finds he is competing regularly, and often defeating opponents half his age. Craig gets sick, first with ulcerative colitis and then colon cancer, and after a colostomy, returns to the ring, where he rebuilds the strength to continue his recovery (wearing a foul protector over his ostomy bag).
Some parts of the film are not for the squeamish -- the physical aftermath of colon cancer isn't pretty -- but Craig's indomitable spirit blazes from every frame. The film includes interviews with Craig's doctor, coach, friends, sparring partners, and even his housekeeper, each of whom has his or her own path to being at peace with Craig's circumstances, but who accept him and cherish him as he is.
(FULL DISCLOSURE: I am a college friend of Craig Wilson, so I'm not unbiased. But you really should see this film.)
I saw this film (with English subtitles) on a recent Lufthansa flight. An East German single mother who has been ardently devoted to the socialist state falls into a coma for eight months, during which the Berlin Wall falls and Germany is reunified. She miraculously regains consciousness but the doctors warn her son that too much excitement could kill her. He resolves to protect her from learning that her beloved socialist state has dissolved, and sets up a mini-GDR in their tiny apartment. It's wryly funny and touching. Highly recommended.
This is a good movie. But if you enjoyed it, or were moved by it, you owe it to yourself to read Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash. The book (also called A BEAUTIFUL MIND) is one of the most riveting and moving pieces of nonfiction I've ever read, and certainly one of the finest biographies published in the past ten or fifteen years. I took it with me on a trip to Asia about a year and a half ago, and my only regret was that it ended a couple of hours into my 11-hour flight home. It's a wonderful book.