"your life is my life" ( Breathe 2017)

I had watched it on Christmas Day with my sister. Can't  help but it's pretty marvelous! I cried ughh! you have to give Breathe time to let its charm and its heartfelt decency grow on you. The film is about an important figure in the history of how we think about and respect disabled people – the wheelchair-use pioneer and polio survivor Robin Cavendish 

Breathe is a window into the life of a man, paralysed from the neck down, and his wife. It is a story that celebrates their strength on their journey together to fight the barriers and limitations that society imposed on disable people all over the world.

Starring

The story starts in 1956 when Robin Cavendish meets a beautiful woman called Diana. They fall in love, have a whirlwind courtship of just six weeks, marry and go off to Kenya to begin a new and adventurous life. Two years into their fairytale marriage, however, everything changed.

After contracting polio at the age of 28, Robin Cavendish is confined to a bed and given only months to live. With help from his wife Diana and her twin brothers, and the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy Hall, Cavendish emerges from the hospital ward and devotes the rest of his life to helping fellow patients and the disabled.

 Cavendish feels faint and collapses: he has polio, is paralysed from the neck down, and after he is brought back to England, the medical establishment curtly tells Diana not to expect her husband to live any more than a few months, and only as a prostrate patient who must be passive and obedient. But armed with love and courage, the Cavendishes demand more of existence than this, and Robin defies the grumpy doctors by using a new respirator-wheelchair invented especially for him. 

He is a Tea Broker in Kenya in the late 1950s, just a year into married life, the paralysed Cavendish was put on a respirator and given months to live – but more than 20 years later, thanks to a wholegrain blend of resourcefulness, gumption and an upper lip so stiff it could have supported his own bodyweight, he was still going strong. 

Strong performances! well-matched leads help add an edge to a biopic that takes a decidedly heartwarming approach to its real-life story. Andrew Garfield is NAILING it with these roles man, first hacksaw ridge, now this one. He's going for the Oscars. When I watched the movie, I was amazed and loved it, shedding rare tears. I loves Claire’s performance and cannot believe that Andrew's act in every detail and every breath. 

Cavendish had also supervised the design of a Dormobile van with a hydraulic lift, so he could travel. He decided he wanted to see the sun set over the Mediterranean, so off they went to Spain. But there was a disaster, Diana’s brother and not the most practical of men, plugged a cable for Robin’s breathing machine into the wrong socket. There was a loud explosion, flames and smoke, and both van and breathing machine had broke.

Throughout his life, Robin Cavendish had always been a man full of energy, competition and surrounded by friends, he had the woman of his dreams at his side and a thriving business as a tea broker in Africa. His chair was always surrounded by pretty girls 

Throughout the film, Robin and Diane have to overcome every possible challenge, from discharging Robin from the hospital against his doctor’s opinion, to finding a way to allow him to live a normal life. but the time has arrived, He begged her wife to switch off the ventilator coz he said it his time to let himself go.

Trivia; It is a real story of the parents of this movie producer.
'' I wanted Breathe to be truthful to my parents’ story, to capture the spirited fun and resilience of their love for one another while modestly and quietly, through their brave example, helping to change the lives of so many other disabled people. '' - producer

Produced by Jonathan Cavendish to celebrate the life and love between his parents, Breathe is a moving tribute to Robin and Diane Cavendish and how, with their love, they battled against Poliomyelitis and its devastating consequences.

Film producer of this movie tells how his father became the first person paralysed by polio to live outside hospital. Here's the link:
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5004351/Producer-tells-story-inspired-new-movie-Breathe.html#ixzz52GzRyJ9e

A must watch!!