Phil Reynolds and other Shipees won complimentary double passes here on FSN recently courtesy Luna Palace Cinemas to attend the Luna Leederville preview last Saturday of the new film I Swear. Reports coming in to us are mighty positive. Phil sent in this summary of the film – Have to Swear! Wow! Wow! &^%$#@! Wow! Here’s his longer, quite personal review.
On Saturday, I went to watch one of the best movies ever, called “I Swear”.
About a boy with the Tourette’s Syndrome. Talk about bringing out every emotion that the human mind can comprehend!
The movie blurb accurately says –
“Based on the true story, I SWEAR is a moving, uplifting account of the life of John Davidson, a Tourette’s Syndrome campaigner who grew up with the condition in 1980s Scotland, at a time when it was little known and misunderstood. Featuring outstanding performances from Robert Aramayo, Peter Mullan, Shirley Henderson and Maxine Peake, I SWEAR is a frank, funny and touching story about the transformative power of friendship and community.”
Robert Aramayo won a BAFTA best actor award recently for his part.
The stigma of the early onset of the condition, in the early 1960’s in the UK. Stunned me to my core, and lifted me up with its humour! I will not take away the thunder of the movie, it is a must see, for every human being!
Mother, Father and teenagers!
I had similar experiences as John with Tourette’s, and its stigma in the community, with my Chronic Dyslexia and stammering and stuttering, since my early childhood. As the condition was not known in the mid 1950’s and into my high school years, late 1960’s.
My mother Joan and my father’s mother, Nan Mary were the bedrock to my struggles with dyslexia and its stigma back then. How my mother managed to find a reading phycologist in the Mill Town of Preston, Lancashire, England amazes me, still to this day!
Mum would argue with the teachers and the education system, that I was intelligent, but could not grasp reading. Her frustration was so palpable, as my two brothers Stephen and Gary romped through school with straight A’s.
As my mother and father both had to work, it was left up to Nan Mary to take me, twice a week to Preston on the bus half an hour there, an hour with the educator and then another half hour waiting for the next bus and then half hour drive back to our village, Euxton, so nan Mary could drop me back at school.q
I thank The Lord God for Mum and Nan everyday, for their unfailing love and understanding, in my childhood plight and its frustrations. Right up to their passing, Mum in 1998 and Nan Mary 2006. Amen!
Seeing this film courtesy Luna Palace Cinemas and FSN has spurred me on to write my story.
I rate in 20/10.
By Phil Reynolds
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