Murderball Movie Review

Jorge Turcios

Soc. 360

Professor: Williams

February 21, 12

Movie Review II

Murderball

            Murderball is a film that let us learn the other side of people with disabilities. It helps us understand that not everyone on a wheelchair wants to be look as fragile, incompetent, or unable. The movie re-enforce the fact that people with disabilities are in some cases more capable to do things mentally, physically, and emotionally, in comparison to those individuals that are consider “normal”.

            One of the main points that Mark Zupan address is the fact that a person is consider deviant when he or she is handicap or unable.  For the most part, some people feel sorry for them; or think that they are not capable of function like a person that is not on a wheelchair.  People with disabilities are consider deviant because the media plays a big role crating images winch are consider to be healthy, however those bodies are far from reality. The same role is play for obese people they are consider deviant because of their size, most people feel sorry for a heavy person thinking that they wishes to be skinny like those models on commercials. Erich Goode mentioned on his article, The Stigma of Obesity, that obese people are consider by society less worthy, the same happened with people like Mark as soon someone see him in a wheelchair, atomically we start making assumption or feel sorry for him.

            The thesis relates to the course because as we study “deviant bodies” we learn that most deviant incapacities are socially constructed.  It helps us understand how labels are created to dehumanized individuals. However, Mark Zupan is the opposite of that, he show us that being “deviant” can have a positive outcome if you ignore what society believe.

            One of the points I found more convincing is that the actual stigma is the one who make those individual feel insecure and unable to accomplish things. In the case of Emanuel the autistic child that his father refused to get him diagnosed because he felt that having a diagnosis will actually stop the child reach his maximum potential. That the way I believe stigma works on individuals, as soon society puts labels it help  unable the maid to function.

            I will like to study the effect Mark Zupan is having on individuals that are just finishing treatment and are put back to live their life. My experiment will follow individuals throughout sections of self therapy, speaking with mark and the team and measure their motivation in comparison to those individuals that don’t received any coaching on how to cope with the outcome of an accident.

References

WC: 485

Works Cited

Goode, Erich. “The Stigma of Obesity”  Readings in Deviant Behavior. Eds. Alex, Thomas, Addrain. Boston: MA, 2010. 161-167. Print

Jad Abumrad, Robert Krulwich “The Frowners” Radiolab. 29 Dec. 2008. http://www.radiolab.org/2008/dec/29/the-frowners/ Web. 27 Feb. 2012.

Muderball. Dir. Henry A. Rubin, Dana A. Shapiro. Perf. Joe Soares, Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan. MTV Films, Participant Media. 2005. Film