Last night we hit movie pay dirt. Not so easy, with countless bad films being made every day. It's based on a man named Mark O'Brien, a Berkeley poet who had polio as a child and spent the rest of his life dependent on an iron lung. Great cast... Helen Hunt, John Hawkes, William H. Macy.
I like movies that remove misconceptions and emotional blockage like this one does. It's a beautiful and even erotic story. That isn't an easy movie-making feat, when you realize it involves a paralyzed man in an iron lung. I'll just leave it at that.
