Tuesday, March 08, 2016
concussion has sober patient earnestness of a lawyer preparing a major case-it's a dramatization of true events and occasionally hoked up in the finest Hollywood tradition but it wants to stir you in to being convinced instead of the other way around. Partly that because the case that it's making is tantamount to heresy in many. if not, corners of America that football can cause long terms degenerated brain injury and you got to be nuts to let you kids play by any age. The movie also features what may be Will Smith best dramatic performances to date.How successful does the star convince you that he is doctor Bennett Omalu, he was born forensic pathologist from Pittsburgh who studies over the past fifteen years have established a direct link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)? For the duration the film's running time you will forget that are watching Will Smith. This is less about mastering an accent that about a movie industry insider successful conveying the measure of an American outsider: a modest and religious man. a immigrant building a life in what he believes a land in opportunity. Which is fine until you start trash-talking the national game. Directed by Peter Landes man, ('ParkLand') and adapted by the directer from a 2009 GQ article by Jeanne Marie, Laskas, Concussion establish Omalu as a first rate character a city coronerfascinated by the narrative dead people tell why and how they died. Doctor
