Monday, April 27, 2009

The Necessities of Life

Canada

Set in 1952, we follow an Eskimo who is taken from his home and shipped to a TB hospital in Quebec as part of a government program to "help" native peoples. No one speaks his language, he is isolated, away from his family and suffering from the disease.

For a while this seemed like insensitive cruelty, even if well intentioned but the lead was so dignified and fundamentally decent that the film won me over. His connection with a kindly nurse transforms the experience for him and for us. The eventual resolution was cliched but acceptable. 

Canada's oscar entry.

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