The God Committee

I really enjoyed this movie. Kelsey Grammer did a great job. This movie left us with a lot of "what would you do in that scenario?" questions.

This intrigued me when I saw it on Netflix as it is very well timed. A transplant was done in Maryland with a genetically changed pigs heart into a man just on Jan 7th, 2022.

This is an interesting story of a hospital's committee that has to decide who has the right to an organ that is available. So many things makes their decisions not as easy as it should be ..... as in will a donation of 25 million by the father of a man who is obviously not worthy, over a man or woman who are only rich in their families love and support.

The story spans two timelines .... one of this timeline and many years after and what the result of the decision made.

Do these things happen in some of the decision making rooms, I honestly believe they do and biases are biases .... if the person drinks, smokes, got arrested for a petty crime decades ago .... and so it goes. Interesting story but not if you are looking for action, as most of it is done between 4 walls of the committee room.

Casting is Kelsey Grammar, Julia Stiles and Janeane Garofalo and for me the casting could have been better.

Very moving ... photos at beginning and end of real transplant teams and patients with some very moving music throughout.

Best wishes to David Bennett who was the recipient of said pigs heart. He was not deemed acceptable normally as he was guilty in past of stabbing a man. Since the surgery is still in the testing stage he accepted the surgery knowing he may not live long without it.

Hard-edged look at the ethics, the compromises and the difficult choices. "The heart is just a muscle,"

I am kidney transplant recipient (2-2011) When I was called to the hospital, another patient waiting for a kidney too, was called, our romms were next to each other, so we crossed sight at one point. Since there were 2 kidneys, one was for him and the other for me. I was taken to the operation room the next day and had a succesful surgery. The next day after the surgery I found out the other patient was sent home with out having a transplant, because since my donor passed in a car accident, one kidney was too damaged and was not suitible for transplant. I've been always wondering how the commite decided to give the surviving kidney to me.

7/10 - genuinely interesting dive into the ethics and forces at play in the hospital that is only slightly derailed by a secondary plot that is pretty unnecessary for the most part.