CONCUSSION 3.0***
“Concussion”
is a movie based on a true story about a pathologist named Dr. Bennet Omalu,
who uncovers the truth about the damaging effects to the brain in football
players, caused by repeated concussions through normal play. It is a compelling
story about how flawed the system and corporations are, when there is a lot of
money on the line, and the Difficulties people will have to endure to make others
aware of a problem.
This
well presented and important movie
is a scathing indictment of Commissioner Roger Goodell and the National
Football League. As we've seen time and again over the years, the NFL will try
and conceal, deny, and protect its brand against any bad information until
their "backs are up against the wall" and they finally have to admit
certain things to the public.
Such is the case here in this film, which focuses on the discovery of CTE ( Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy ), in the brain tissue of the late Mike Webster (Robert Morse), the popular former center of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and subsequently several other NFL players who tragically died at an early age after retiring from pro football. This brain disease, caused by recurrent blunt force blows to the head, was discovered by Dir. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), who was at the time the Allegheny County Coroner, in Pittsburgh, Pa.. One of the difficulties with CTE is that there is no test to detect it. Only through a post death autopsy can it be confirmed. As a result, after the word got out about CTE, some former NFL players who thought they might have CTE would commit suicide by shooting themselves in the chest so their brain could be examined.
The movie depicts Dr. Omalu's long bitter struggle with the NFL to recognize and take action to prevent debilitating concussions and brain injuries to its players. In this struggle, Dir. Omalu is helped by other physicians, who believed in his scientific evidence such as Dir. Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin) and Dr. Cyril Wecht (Albert Brooks).
Such is the case here in this film, which focuses on the discovery of CTE ( Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy ), in the brain tissue of the late Mike Webster (Robert Morse), the popular former center of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and subsequently several other NFL players who tragically died at an early age after retiring from pro football. This brain disease, caused by recurrent blunt force blows to the head, was discovered by Dir. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), who was at the time the Allegheny County Coroner, in Pittsburgh, Pa.. One of the difficulties with CTE is that there is no test to detect it. Only through a post death autopsy can it be confirmed. As a result, after the word got out about CTE, some former NFL players who thought they might have CTE would commit suicide by shooting themselves in the chest so their brain could be examined.
The movie depicts Dr. Omalu's long bitter struggle with the NFL to recognize and take action to prevent debilitating concussions and brain injuries to its players. In this struggle, Dir. Omalu is helped by other physicians, who believed in his scientific evidence such as Dir. Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin) and Dr. Cyril Wecht (Albert Brooks).
Overall "Concussion"
is a film that's an emotional drama of discovery and it searches for the truth
about a deadly condition (CTE) that is now estimated to affect approximately
one-third of the NFL players, especially those who retired before this
was revealed.
Clark
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