El Mar Adentro - ”the Sea Inside” - Movie Review

My film reflection and analysis is of the movie El mar adentro-”The sea inside”. The movie is based off of the true story of Ramon Sampedro. Ramon became a quadriplegic after a swimming accident. Ramon believed he a right to end his own life, the life of confinement to a bed was not the life he wanted to be living. When Ramon was younger he was a sailor and traveled the world as a fisherman. He knew how life should be enjoyed and he felt that he was not “living” in that condition. This movie was filmed in 2004 but Ramon made his plea for assisted suicide in 1996. This was a seemingly new and unfathomable idea as to why someone should argue the right to end their own life. Currently only Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Montana are the only states in America that allow physician assisted suicide ( ProCon).

In this film Ramon’s family is what kept him strong and in a sense living. They prepared everything for him and his nephew was like his son he never had. They made sure Ramon was rolled every hour to prevent blood clots, they cleaned and feed him. A few years before he asked for judicial review on is assisted suicide he asked his family and they would to do it. His brother hated the idea of killing his brother and believed it was just wrong. Even they would not do it for him, they supported him in speaking with the lawyer that he befriended.

very determined. In terms of culture family is of the most importance and they often have many generations living together. They also religiously disagree with suicide.

I would recommend this movie to someone because assisted suicide is an issue that is gaining light in the media. 29 year-old Brittany Maynard of California explained in a video that went viral, that she would end her own life on November 1, 2014 rather than die of the terminal inoperable brain cancer she was diagnosed with. After several surgeries, doctors said in April that her brain tumor had returned and gave her about six months to live. She became an advocate for the “Death with Dignity act”. This advocates that terminally ill patients be allowed to receive medication that will let them die on their own terms. Every person’s circumstances of dying are different. Opponents of the legal right to die would say that freedom has its limits. However, just because freedom has its limits does not mean that a right to die falls beyond those limits. In 1994 Judge Barbara