The Sea Within (Official Translation: The Sea Inside)
warning note: this is a draft which should be revised
This Spanish film is not an "inspiring" tale, as they say over at Wikipedia.
It is not about how knowing a quadriplegic made it possible for women to do things
they would otherwise not do.
That is rubbish, but just the sort of HAPPY HAPPY bullshit one expects from Hollywood
or Wall Street.
The film is about human relationships. It is about the pain of a man who can never
do what he dreams about doing, a man who is tortured every day with memories
and impossibilities.
It is the story of how different individuals--a sister-in-law, a nephew, a brother,
a father--react to his situation.
It is the story of the different ways in which they love him. Indeed, one of the insights of the film is the sensitive depiction of these family relationships.
The film also shows how different women reacted, and how only one loved him enough to do what he actually asked.
The psychological complexity and sensitivity of the film is reduced to empty cliches by the article about it currently up at Wikipedia.
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