After researching the role and learning more about the condition, Smith remains a football fan.
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While the film itself moves kind of slow, the story itself seems to jump time periods without any real indication of how much time has actually passed. (Duerson’s family, incidentally, has publicly disputed how Duerson is portrayed in the film.) He turns into a crucial ally of Omalu’s. It becomes his crusade, perhaps even to the point of putting himself in physical danger, as the National Football League forcefully pushes back and tries to discredit him.
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“You need to mitigate your risk”, Omalu said, as he entered the Hollywood premiere of the film on his life.
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Those can produce permanent brain damage at the cellular level that lead to long-term medical issues, including depression, memory loss, impaired intelligence and dementia, Omalu writes.
Hall of famer Frank Gifford, who died in August, is the latest player whose autopsy revealed he suffered from CTE. Although Omalu’s name might not be familiar to moviegoers, his work has been reported upon thoroughly over the past decade. “He is a man of science, firmly. Everything in his life is about God, yet he is a scientist”.
“The issue is the iceberg; the game is the Titanic”, said Landesman.
And so, determined to find out what that something was – out of respect and obligation to Webster, as Landesman’s film tells it – Omalu kept looking.
“Nobody wants the game to go away, but there needs to be an awareness and an honesty with players and parents of young children playing the game”, Morse said.
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“I wouldn’t let my son play football”. (Luke Wilson has a brief moment as NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, presiding over a committee hearing.) In the midst of an ongoing debate, Concussion takes a side, but it’s not bullheaded, nor is it fearful. “I’m not avoiding it. I just have been walking by in an airport or something like that, and I’ve seen (NFL) plays on TV”. I saw how someone could see it that way. “I now pay more attention to those things”. Even if it lends the film a layer of personal emotion, it costs “Concussion” precious momentum, particularly in the film’s second half. There is also a love story. “But also through the fact that they are foreigners in America”. “When you see what a lung looks like that has been smoked on, you will never put a cigarette in your mouth”. I mean, that’s what the movie showed…but people have died over this stuff. And it gets just that, a little, in the wise-cracking mensch performance of Albert Brooks as Dr. Cyril Wecht.
