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Memorergi good film but with many flaws

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

zbirnbaum *****Warning this review may contain spoilers*****I've found the movie "Music Within" which was directed by Steven Sawalich to be an excellent movie. This movie to me was very heartfelt, informative for people and surprisingly had a good amount of humor and hilarious one liners. The basic plot of the movie is that after a confrontation with one of his idols, which ruins his dreams of being able to study public speaking in college, Richard Pimentel who is portrayed by Ron Livingston decides to join the Army and is shipped off to Vietnam. During his service in Vietnam, Richard loses nearly all of his hearing. After coming back and finding a new group of friends, including a man who has cerebral palsy and as well as an alcoholic war veteran, Richard discovers that has a gift for motivational speaking and that he wants to become an advocate for people with disabilities. The basic message of this movie is that a person is not bound by the limitations of their disability. This is shown with Richard because even though he has loss his hearing Richard still decides to give motivation speeches because he feels that he wants to prove to everyone in the movie that said he could not give any speech wrong. When I saw the film, I was surprised how the movie showed what a person with a disability goes through and how people treat him. The way that people treat Richard because their always telling Richard that he will never be able to achieve his dream of public speaking because he is Deaf, this shows the thought process of some people. One person in the movie tells Richard, that he won't get a job after college and that he should "learn to read lips or move to Hawaii." Also, this man says to Richard that due to his ringing in his head "he won't have any friends, incompetent, foul mouth." This shows then mentality of some people in the movie. This can also be looked as a negative barrier. The movie does show that its main character does have negative barriers when it comes to their own disability. This is shown when Richard is recovering after his accident in Vietnam and finds out he is partial Deaf and has Tinnitus which cause a ringing sound. This is something that only Richard can hear and at first he is very angry because this causes him to not be able to finish college. In the movie, there is also positive advocacy because there are people in the movie who support Richard and want to help him. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes drama, excellent writing, and also who like to see something inspirational. This movie has all of that. People should go out and watch this movie because this movie shows how one man who has his up and downs is able to motivate and inspire people. This movie also shows the hardships that individuals who have disabilities go through, but also how they can overcome their own disabilities. This movie was excellent ant that anyone who just wants to see a good movie should see it.

sberner-1 I ask because, if that is the actual Pimentel giving the speech in the included extras then it's pretty clear that the director intentionally cast someone much "better looking" by Hollywood standards than the real person to play the part; which really undermines the message. As one who hates discrimination, including discrimination against those who don't look or act "normal," I find it really sad that even a film about combating discrimination could not have as the central character someone a bit overweight. As if an audience would not buy the message if it were delivered by someone not "handsome" enough. The movie has a great story line, progress towards equality and opportunity win me over every time, but that casting choice kills it for me. On the other hand, if that is not the real Pimentel in the extras, and Ron Livingston does look like him, then I do recommend this.

dq-19 As a mother of a disabled actress with Cerebral Palsy who is heavily involved in advocacy within the disabled community we were thrilled with this movie. My daughter met Mr Pimentel at a Youth Leadership Conference in Sacramento and his speech motivated her tremendously and she was excited to hear lines spoken in the movie that she heard from Mr Pimental. Ron Livingston did a great job portraying Mr Pimental and, of course, Mr Michael Sheen was incredible - no one with any knowledge of CP would have guessed that this gentleman did not have CP. Having said all this - I did find it horribly ironic that although this movie was all about inclusion and disabled rights, the main disabled characters were portrayed by able bodied actors. Was it impossible to find a good deaf actor and a good actor with cerebral palsy? One of my daughter's goals in life is to get people to accept actors with disablities playing a variety of roles on screen - believe me they are capable. Once again - we loved the movie and all it told and hope that the disabled community will continue to be seen and heard.

farhans I watched this movie last night. I prefer to think myself as an avid movie's collector and most of my all time favorite movies are movies like this one. This movie had everything a great storyline, exceptionally good acting, humor (both dark and light), and above all it was based on a true story. I was particularly moved by Michael Sheen's performance, which should be Oscar worthy by all standards. Ron Livingston was great too. What made me really appreciate the movie was its dialogs. Most of the situations were too heavy in terms of the sheer drama surrounding the characters, yet the dialogs were just very down to earth and sometimes even mixed with a unique humor to augment an already perfect setting. Writers did not pull any punches when it came for a character to shine in the spot light, yet most of the lines delivered were very humble and didn't, in any way, make the situation more dramatic....hence complementing the scene by cushioning the throbbing emotions of the people involved rather than over stating and pushing things over the edge.Start of the movie was really great and Ron's brand of narration just rightly set the tone for the events to come. My interpretation of the movie was just the whole deal with disabled people until it came to that point when Ron's character drew the parallel between him and "them". The highs and lows to follow, did the story quite a lot of justice.The ending was just absolutely breath-taking. It was soft and just concluded this ride with a whimper, but measured bang on the rechter scale.This movie is here to win hearts of viewers and unlike many movies that i have watched lately, it is here to make a winning statement with perfection. Watch it and buy yourself a conscious, if you don't have one already.