Wednesday, February 22, 2017

"Life Itself", the biopic

I am not sure how many people have seen the "Life Itself" biography currently playing on Netflix, but I would highly recommend it.  The film is fun and it gives a remarkable progression of how Roger Ebert changed as a man, and as he grew, both older and wiser.  For some of us, who remember the PBS series, don't always remember that he was unable to speak in his last years, and for someone known for both his written and spoken word, that couldn't have been easy.  One thing that constantly catches me off guard in the documentary is that you can see thru Roger's jaw, and that the surgeons basically left the jaw flap for nothing but aesthetic purposes.

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