An effectively conventional documentary that would probably work better as a 90-minute pilot for an ongoing docuseries than as a standalone film, Jess Jacklin’sblends two genres that each tend to favor a single narrative path. Sports films progress toward unity and triumph — the solitary athlete realizes he needs coaching/love/whatever, the mismatched teammates come together, etc. Disability stories progress toward an accepted version of recovery — primarily an ableist version of “normal.
Of greater interest are the lives they’re living now. This includes their limitations — caused less frequently by their actually disabilities and more frequently by the myriad accessibility failures that plague New York City — their living strategies and their hopes for the future. Those elements intersect at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai’s Abilities Research Center, run by Dr.
We’ve been trained as viewers to expect the familiar arc and its absence is jarring on a subconscious level — “Why aren’t they gaming more?” is a question I can easily imagine some viewers posing. At the same time, taking people whom outsiders probably conceive of as united by their disability, splitting them apart and making them come to life as individuals is more complicated and provocative, even if the sensation never left my mind that 87 minutes wasn’t enough time for the full project.
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