Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui바카라s new documentary, 바카라Super/Man바카라 picks up a very different version of Christopher Reeve바카라s journey.
Reeve is now paralysed from the neck down after a fall from바카라his horse. He cannot move, he cannot soar. His wife, Dana, tends to him and then talks of seeking out towels fresh from the dryer so she can get some of the warmth that she no longer can receive from her husband, reports Variety.
The couple바카라s young son, Will, celebrates바카라his third birthday party at his father바카라s hospital. Remarkably, less than a year later, Reeve is on stage at the Oscars receiving a standing ovation.
As per Variety, he teaches Will how to ride his bike, moving along with him and offering encouragement from his motorised wheelchair.
In a way, Reeve became a superhero again. Bonhote and Ettedgui바카라s film, premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, makes it clear that Reeve바카라s comeback came at a tremendous price.
바카라His morning routine from waking up to being able to roll out the door was about two hours,바카라 Will Reeve told Variety with his siblings Matthew and Alexandra. 바카라We바카라d all wake up every morning and think anything could happen. But he would wake up and then remember all over again that he couldn바카라t move.바카라
Before his accident, Reeve wasn바카라t unkind, but he did his own thing. (In the film, Matthew notes his dad left to ski in France the day after he was born.) The actor had a cold poet father who didn바카라t approve of his movies and 바카라 legend has it 바카라 bought him Champagne mistakenly thinking he had been cast not as the superhero but in George Bernard Shaw바카라s 바카라Man and Superman바카라.
Reeve showed his love for his kids by taking them skiing and schussing to the bottom ahead of them. That all changed after his accident. 바카라Our love language was activity before (sic),바카라 Alexandra said. 바카라Suddenly, you바카라re spending time just hanging out in dad바카라s office looking each other in the eye and talking for two hours.바카라
Neither Reeve바카라s children nor the filmmakers shy away from the fact that Reeve바카라s accident made him a better man.
바카라I think he was very conscious of that irony and the legacy of 바카라Superman바카라 when people viewed his story and thought about him after the accident,바카라 said Alexandra. 바카라He talked about redefining what it is to be a hero바카라 it바카라s an everyday person who survives despite overwhelming obstacles.바카라
Reeve didn바카라t just thrive; he became a mensch.바카라He created, with Dana, a foundation that has raised hundreds of millions for research. And it wasn바카라t done alone 바카라 the documentary makes it clear that Reeve had financial resources available that others do not, but stresses it was his blended family of Dana, his ex-partner Gae and his three children.
바카라Things came easily to him early in his life,바카라 Bonhote said. 바카라Then, as Christopher said, 바카라The one minority anyone can become part of in an instant, is disability.바카라 I think that there was a genuine opening to the world around him on a different level. It would be facile to say, 바카라Oh, this is a triumph over adversity story,바카라 but it is turning adversity into opportunity.바카라
