Kinetic Comorbidity

"You're being sucked into a void you that can't control." -- Joe Biden, secondary consoler

In the 2001 Hannibal, Gary Oldman plays Mason Verger, a survivor of Dr. Lecter's distinctive methods. In typical melodramatic fashion, Harris utilizes the character for didactic purposes, assuming the novel bears a family relation to the screenplay. Being utterly consumed with the desire to destroy evil puts you on an even footing with evil itself. How such a hideously deformed victim had the command to create an elaborate pit of boars with which to trap the psychiatrist stretches credulity, but it signifies the standard industry conceit of the diabolical invalid who barks orders at more able minions. Bongo Mbutuma, if I am accurate enough in my narrow casting, performs the same function in District 9, as the Nigerian warlord who wants prawn power. In earlier films such as Monkey Shines and Gattaca, Jason Beghe and Jude Law are allowed some latitude to flesh out the misery within their character arcs, but their own tyranny destabilizes their moral balance. I should not make this pun, but, as someone in the life, Monkey Shines is a fucking joke as far as its plot and its sex goes, but Beghe does deserve credit for encapsulating the frustrations of a sum zero mobility accurately.

The flip side of this is the Hallmark Hall of Fame paraplegic, the Roy Campanella bio epic of the week, the sentimental commiseration  tale of which I dunno if My Left Foot is an included nomenclature.

In entertainment, there seems to be no tertiary space just to be a real wheelchair user, unless you're Daryl Mitchell, with the fortune to be produced by David Letterman.

I am aware of the black actor with the respiratory ailment who was a recur on Malcolm in the Middle, but viewers of this popular comedy never got to see what it took for this character to engage in matriculation. The director of Ed was brave, toward the end run of the series, to take a long capture of Mitchell getting out of bed, then struggling to put on his socks. The power of the video age is such that viewers need to see more of this for their edification.