![]() ![]() There's great violence in these scenes it's a grim spectacle and not at all easy to watch. And we feel that in watching him we're watching the essential struggle - not just a man fighting against his disease, but the fight to communicate that everyone wages. With his frail body straining against itself, his neck twisted and his hands stretched out to full length, he tortures each word out of himself, as if he were ripping them out of his flesh. As Christy Brown, the Dublin-born painter-writer afflicted with cerebral palsy, Daniel Day-Lewis clenches his teeth so hard and blinks so ferociously that you'd think he was trying to force steam out of his ears. Jim Sheridan's "My Left Foot" must be the most passionately empathetic film about a physical affliction ever made. This movie won Oscars for Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Supporting Actress (Brenda Fricker.) ![]()
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