My_Left_Foot

My Left Foot Movie Critique “My Left Foot” Irish writer/artist Christy Brown, as portrayed in the new film "My Left Foot," had a rather volatile personality, along with a dry wit. He probably wanted more than anything else to simply be accepted for who he was, but his frustrations at the limitations life placed on him were not well hidden. Christy Brown was a cerebral palsy victim with his left foot the only appendage over which he had complete control. With that foot he learned to paint, write, type and essentially communicate, though he eventually learned to speak clearly enough so that people could understand him. The film follows Christy's life from his birth into a poor, bricklayer's family in Dublin through a unintentional meeting with a young nurse when he was about 40. The early part of the film shows Christy as a young boy, right after his birth, Christy is so difficult to raise that others encourage the family to put him in some kind of home, but his loving mother and even his tough-minded, chauvinist father insist that he stay with the family. At first, christy, foot, left, film, brown, through, life, family, eventually, young, write, simply, scene, pain, once, movie, mother, love, learned, full, frustrations, communicate, birth, about, years, writer/artist, word, wit, wicked, wanted, volatile, vivid, victim, very