Lorenzo's Oil [VHS] Overview
With this powerful 1992 drama, director-producer George Miller (The Road Warrior) proved that a movie about a disease doesn't have to be a typical disease-of-the-week movie. Based on the real-life case of the Odones family, the story concerns 5-year-old Lorenzo, suffering mightily from an apparently incurable and degenerative brain illness called A.L.D. His parents, an economist (Nick Nolte) and a linguist (Susan Sarandon), refuse to accept the received wisdom that there is no hope, and set about learning biochemistry to pursue a cure on their own. The film becomes an intriguing scientific mystery mixed with a story of pain, grief, and the strain on the two adults. In other words, Lorenzo's Oil is similar to all those medical-mayhem TV flicks but with some key differences: a pair of great actors in Sarandon and Nolte--who actually do some of the finest work of their careers here--and Miller's bold and typically inventive direction. Miller, a doctor himself, refuses to shirk from the chaos and horrors of a child's agony, and he makes us hear the death chains rattling behind images that would be purely sentimental in another director's hands. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Two of the people who gave this movie a low rating (one star) said that the film was not objective, and also suggested that the oil does not work in most patients with ALD. I did a search on the internet only. Edu websites and found that the two auditors are wrong. Lorenzo's oil works only for about 2 / 3 of ALD patients, it is true. It only works if patients starting oil * before * the onset of symptoms. But they could no longer fool the great turning point, represented by Lorenzo oilin the study of ALD. It 's just that the cure turns out to be not as easy as originally hoped.
Do a search of the web following edu.:
Lorenzo Bradley J Stith PhD oil
He is a professor of biology at the University of Colorado, the film is a great teaching tool for students interested in biology, he thinks. He also talks about every aspect of ALD, the film and the oil itself.
Now that the accusation that doctors and nursesis negatively portrayed in the film. This is only partly true, because for every doctor and nurse who was himself interpreted negatively, there were doctors and nurses who were shown positive results. The doctor who finally diagnosed Lorenzo (film) is positive, he played like all her sisters and their assistants. And the doctor, the head of studies of diet (the movie) is only partially represented in the negative, then it helps the Odone "off the record" unprecedented in itsExperiment with Lorenzo and oil. Two of the nursing home care of Lorenzo are partly negative and partly positive image. Moreover, the mother of Lorenzo has been interpreted negatively, partly because their obsession with Lorenzo made them start their own families in some way evil. Of course, you can apologize, because it was the panic and desperate mother.
Do not listen to the opponents. All their claims are off target. This film is on my list of topTen films of all time.
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