 | Whatever your political opinions may be about either of the main actors in this movie, it's brilliant and heroic nonetheless. This film is a testimony to the power of heretical logic, and the almost limitless positivity it offers the human race.
This real-life story revolves around young Lorenzo Odone, who develops a rare genetic disorder called A.L.D., a demyelinating disease that slowly destroys the ability of the body's basic nervous pathways to conduct their signals. As a result, Lorenzo slowly becomes more and more a vegetable, while his parents, played by Nolte and Sarandon, struggle between the painful acceptance of his fate, and wanting to do something to save their child.
The brilliance and heroism of this movie lies in how Mr. Odone braves all opposition from the depravely indifferent medical community, and the sinister A.L.D. "support societies", to not only employ the most heretical logic possible, but to also manufacture an actual cure... a cure for which Mr. Odone was actually awarded an M.D. degree (by a no doubt embarrassed medical community, who issued it to maintain their image).
This movie illustrates the iron-fisted corruption and mass brainwashing that exists within the mainstream medical community, and its mental stranglehold on so many of the "support groups" that follow it, like a devoted zombie cult.
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