As with many "true story" films created in the U.S. these days this one is full of half-truths, stretches and flat out lies. Such films only succeed with those among us who do not "research" the "movie facts". Anytime I see miraculous events and Disney-like truism in a movie I hit the Internet and research the film. Rarely does the film hold up under scrutiny and this film is no exception. I would not be surprised that most who rate this highly have not researched the true facts. For instance, the machine he invented alone in the movie was actually a joint collaboration. The brilliant sewing technique he supposedly came up with in the movie was actually the idea of the female doctor. There is a long list of such twists. The contributions of the white doctors were totally ignored to build up this guy. How fair is that?
Many do not realize that this film was based on an "article" written by a female journalist who interviewed his "wife" for these "facts". The article itself is jam packed with hearsay like "the doctor thought". How does she know what the doctor thought? But she needed to sell an article and seemingly miraculous events always make good copy. There are numerous articles online about such propaganda like the movie "Charlie Wilson's War". We need good black role models but reinventing facts to create them is a bad way to go about it.
PS. As with the other negative reviews that I found of this film expect to find this one way at the end of the others where it will most likely not be read. Hooray for the First Amendment! Yea right!
Many do not realize that this film was based on an "article" written by a female journalist who interviewed his "wife" for these "facts". The article itself is jam packed with hearsay like "the doctor thought". How does she know what the doctor thought? But she needed to sell an article and seemingly miraculous events always make good copy. There are numerous articles online about such propaganda like the movie "Charlie Wilson's War". We need good black role models but reinventing facts to create them is a bad way to go about it.
PS. As with the other negative reviews that I found of this film expect to find this one way at the end of the others where it will most likely not be read. Hooray for the First Amendment! Yea right!