Fundamental Of Caring Movie Essay

Movies can be used for just plain entertainment or to convey a message. However, the best movies do both. For that reason it is best to watch a movie like The Fundamentals of Caring. This movie is the story about Trevor a 18 year old boy with Duchene Muscular Dystrophy (a debilitating disease that causes skeletal muscles to weaken and break down over time) and his caregiver Ben (a middle aged man who is trying to get his life under control. Together they help each other grow and face their problems head on. Throughout the movie the audience sees a somewhat realistic view of how a person with a physical disability lives their day to day life. The college as a whole should watch The Fundamentals of Caring because it is a heartwarming comedy that shows the audience that to care for someone, you must care for yourself in the process, to appreciate the little things in life,
Throughout the movie the audience is shown what the day of a person with physical disabilities has to go through. They cannot make their own food, go far from their house without extensive planning, go to the bathroom by themselves, they almost always needs someone to be in the same room with them all the time. However, the message really hits down deep is when Ben asks Trevor “If you woke up and you were totally fine what is the thing you would want to do most?” Trevor responds “If I could do anything at all? I would really like to take a pee standing up.” Something so simple that any healthy man can do and not think twice about is a near impossible task without help. Also it shows all the medication that he needs to take to stay alive and the machines that he needs to be connected to to allow him to breath at night. The life of a person with a disability is hard and makes you really appreciate everything that you are able to