Breathe analysis

Breathe


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_YnYrLfjxA

Breathe is a biography film about a man who meets a lovely woman and starts to do all these adventures with her when suddenly he is struck with a disease called polio which paralyses him from the neck down and stops him from being able to breathe without a machine.

The film was published by Jonathan Cavendish and it is portraying the life style of his father and what he had to go through. It wasn't shown in the film but Jonathan's mother was also struck with polio for a week whilst pregnant with Johnathan however she miraculously no longer had polio and managed to live her life helping Robin Cavendish.

The film itself was great if you are into movies that make you quite emotional because it is sad to see how unlucky some people are and how we take life for granted whilst other people can't even breathe or do day to day things and are being kept alive by a machine.

During the film we see how he understandably struggled at first to cope with this new "lifestyle" and how he was being kept alive by a machine but after being told by his loving wife that he can't die the film then shows all the adventures they go on and all the fun things that they still did. I think an important message in the film is that you shouldn't just try to survive but you should want to live a life as said by Robin in the film.

The film is quite heartwarming because when it is showing the happy moments of his life it is nice to see because if he chose to die none of that would have happened but they are living as a family and turning a negative situation into a positive one. 

There are also quite a few tense moments in the film for example when the dog runs under the bed and unplugs his machine and Robin can no longer breather and call for help. The wife isn't in the room but she is in another room and its painful to watch because she's isn't far away yet it feels like she is and luckily she walks in and plugs the machine back in. Robin then says "Well that was interesting" which further shows how he is the kind off person who tries to make everyone happy and turn negative situations into positive ones.

Robin goes to a German conference where they are talking about how everyone with his disease belongs in a hospital. He then sees that everyone in this hospital is locked up like they are in a prison. Robin was one of the first people with that disease to be out and about in a wheelchair that carried his disease so everyone at the conference was shocked to see how he was living. After the conference we see a lot of people with the disease that Robin has are now being put in these wheelchairs and they are now away from hospital and being stuck in bed all day.

Overall, I think the film was quite good and emotional to some. I think it is going to be quite successful and I think the film has the message that life will throw obstacle after obstacle at you but it is how you deal with it that makes you who you are. Robin tried to make the best of his life and did so and lived for quite a long time for someone who had polio.