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To: Kaslin

Anyone who pays money to see a movie about a quadriplegic is only a glutton for punishment.


2 posted on 06/10/2016 11:20:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well there is nothing wrong with a movie about a quadriplegic. What is wrong is that he is assisted with suicide.


5 posted on 06/10/2016 11:30:34 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, obviously you’ve never seen “Monkey Shines” :P


8 posted on 06/10/2016 12:07:20 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: BenLurkin

My twenty four year old daughter loved the book and the movie. She insisted on reading passages of it to me. It’s very well written but I was horrified by the story.

She loved the tragedy of it. We’ve had some interesting conversation because of it.


9 posted on 06/10/2016 12:35:22 PM PDT by Jvette
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To: BenLurkin
Anyone who pays money to see a movie about a quadriplegic is only a glutton for punishment.

I wouldn't say that. "The Other Side of the Mountain" is a 1975 movie based on a true story about a young skier who was headed to the Olympics before a ski accident left her paralyzed. The movie shows her adjustment to life after becoming a paraplegic. I only saw the movie once, when it was new, and it left a life-long impression on me. The real person it portrayed died in 2012 at the age of 75.

13 posted on 06/10/2016 3:16:45 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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