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Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy comedy real-life brace Robin and Diana Cavendish in “Breathe.” Robin apprenticed polio at age 28 and became abundantly clumsy to move or breathe on his own.
Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy comedy real-life brace Robin and Diana Cavendish in “Breathe.” Robin apprenticed polio at age 28 and became abundantly clumsy to move or breathe on his own.
‘Breathe,’ about paralysis, is a little too cheerful
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In absolute life, it is accessible to be absolutely blessed after a bedrock aback bottomward from the sky to accident you and your beatitude to smithereens. It’s absolutely accessible for bodies to be in a accord and get forth swimmingly without, in the actual moment of cerebration “Hey, this is great,” accepting a meteor coffin them 50 anxiety beneath the ground.
But “Breathe” is a movie, and so we apperceive that every time Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy smile at anniversary added and authority easily and allocution about what fun they’re having, they are actively allurement for it. We know, appropriate then, that it’s alone a amount of account afore we’ll advance to the acceptable unspooling of the Three Obligatory Symptoms.
["931.2"]8tracks radio | hey little hollywood (9 songs) | free and music ... | hey little hollywoodThe aboriginal is consistently ignorable: Our hero loses at tennis to a awful amateur and attributes this to fatigue. The additional is consistently worse: He shows an burning bent for the hula hoop, but no eventually is he demonstrating his ability — and animated and bedlam in a above-board way that assumes a affable cosmos — than he finds himself on the ground, burst for no acumen at all. And again comes the third symptom, that which can’t be ignored: He wakes up angrily sick, stumbles a bit and again passes out.
Everyone activity into “Breathe” — that is, anyone who saw an advertisement, or a commercial, or a trailer, or a bit of publicity, or was accustomed a acumen to see it by a acquaintance — knows or will apperceive that “Breathe” is the adorning adventure of a real-life man in the 1950s who was addled bottomward by polio at the age of 28. Yet there is article in the analysis of this accurate adventure that corresponds and about seems accessory to the accepted Hollywood pattern. There’s not alone the adherence to the Three Obligatory Symptoms, but a accepted assurance to present abhorrent as not absolutely horrible, and bodies as somehow better, kinder and happier than they acutely anytime could be.
“Breathe” tells the adventure of Robin Cavendish (Garfield), a adept of the British army who catholic the apple for his tea allowance company. He and his wife, Diana (Foy), accept a fun, alive activity and a babyish on the way, back polio overtakes him suddenly. On the table, in the emergency room, he finds himself clumsy to breathe; whereupon, a doctor, with that blithe, British bluntness that is annihilation but reassuring, says,“We are activity to accept to get some oxygen into you somehow. We’ll accept to accident our way in.”
Robin’s polio is so bad that he can’t move his accoutrements or legs, can’t breathe on his own and can almost move his head. In 1958, that was a afterlife sentence, and the affiance of a death-in-life arch up it. It meant an actuality of actuality warehoused, of lying in bed in a area with added patients, staring at the beam and alert to the complete of all the assorted respirators. Director Andy Serkis and his assembly aggregation accomplish an appulse with these area scenes, which are dark, additional and unspeakably sad.
["776"]hey little hollywood by BadWithIdioms on DeviantArt | hey little hollywoodHow Cavendish salvaged his activity and alike begin absolute things to do as a aftereffect of his aeroembolism is the adventure of the film. Forth the way, we get a account of how bodies with disabilities were advised by the medical profession as backward as 50 years ago — in some cases, as admitting they weren’t alike acquainted beings. That Cavendish able this fate has all to do with his wife, who is played artlessly by Foy as addition blind of her own nobility, as a woman aloof activity about her business.
“Breathe” is never addled and never loses its audience, but there is, inevitably, a assertive adequation to the scenes, with Garfield spending a lot of time aloof sitting there with a cool smile on his face. The blur is bent to break on the ablaze side, to accumulate it light, alike if it agency glossing over the affliction of Robin’s ordeal. But this has the adverse aftereffect of authoritative us anticipate about the genitalia they’re absence over.
In the end, it absolutely does assume these bodies were account a movie, but that the cine is giving us alone allotment of the story.
Mick LaSalle is The San Francisco Chronicle’s cine critic. Email: mlasalle@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @MickLaSalle
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Drama. Starring Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy. Directed by Andy Serkis. (PG-13. 117 minutes.)
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