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Today, I caught the documentary Murderball. It's a great film, full of humor, pathos and human spirit. Murderball is the original name for rugby played by quadraplegics. The level of disability of the individual playing is awarded a point (1 to 4), and the points of all team members on the field at one time have to add up to eight. Each athlete uses a customized wheelchair that seems to be a rolling metal cage -- I think one of the people in the film called it a battering ram on wheels.
I throughly enjoyed this movie. It was exciting, showing athletes in top form. The details of their disability was completely secondary. You watched the strategy of the teams come together, how each member of the team found the strength to persevere, all concluding in the paralympic games in Athens 2004. It doesn't quite end the way you might think it would, either.
Posted by Casper at August 14, 2005 11:10 PM