The Sea Inside 2004 123movies

Watch: Mar adentro 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living. Through the gift of his love, these two women are inspired to accomplish things they never previously thought possible. Despite his wish to die, Ramón taught everyone he encountered the meaning, value and preciousness of life. Though he could not move himself, he had an uncanny ability to move others..
Plot: The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman who wants to convince him that life is worth living.
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Ratings:

	8.0/10 Votes: 82,126
	84% | RottenTomatoes
	74/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 756 Popularity: 10.138 | TMDB

Reviews:

The core moral question
Many more eloquent reviews than this have described the quite spectacular acting, casting and styling of this film. It appears that the only negative reviews focus on a perceived imbalance in the film’s handling of the core moral question (euthanasia).

This film is, bar the final scenes, meticulous in stressing Ramon’s belief that he’s not making some grand point but merely that, for him, a life devoid of dignity is a life not worth living. We, as viewers, see an enormous amount of dignity in his life – we see family and friends and culture and, but for its physical limitations, a life fully lived. Central to the tragedy of this film is that there is really only one person who thinks that Ramon’s life is not worth living – and that is him.

To watch this film and say that the only counter argument comes from the visit of a bumbling priest is a nonsense. The priest’s visit is pure farce, a direct assault on the simplicity of the Spanish Catholic Church’s response to the issue of euthanasia. However, the sister’s parting words to the priest momentarily expose the powerful ‘pro-life’ sentiments quietly underpinning the entire film. We are constantly encouraged to see the hope and the beauty of a life lived with love. As the film progresses, we may gradually be encouraged to understand Ramon’s reasoning but we are never reconciled to his decision.

I do not remember a film which moved me and provoked me as much as this.

Riveting and inspiring in spite of such an apparently downbeat subject
You can’t move. At least nothing below the neck moves. You can’t turn around. You can’t eat or drink unaided, or do, choose, or effectively decide, very much for that matter.

Once you had a full life, travelling the world as a ship hand, living and loving to the full. Inside, your spirit still soars, racing along the beach, catching the spray of the waves, smelling the hair of a woman in your arms. But now your spirit has been disenfranchised, stranded behind the veil of your dreams. You have become a distant observer of your own life, powerless to get involved, a ghost at the wheel.

This is the evocative story based on the real life Ramon Sanpedro who became a quadriplegic after a diving accident, and it is the film’s brilliant interiorisation of his world, making the audience feel and see things as if they were the highly articulate Ramon, that gives it the gut-wrenching force to scale the heights of emotional grandeur – rather than wallowing in the grim mire of a sentimental ‘message’ movie.

Early on, the audience is tantalisingly entrusted with the attraction that this unusual man convincingly conveys. Manuela, his sister in law, is devoted to him. Rosa, a struggling local DJ and factory worker, is enamoured of him. But it is Julia, a beautiful lawyer representing him that most understands and empathises with him, partly as she has a dark secret of her own. The right to die campaign worker, Gene, is inexhaustibly supportive, and one of the most well balanced characters morally. But with who, if any, will romantic flights of fancy become physical? And who, if any, will help him achieve his wish to say goodbye to the world if and when the courts fail him in his quest?

The Sea Inside is a quiet revelation that packs emotional honesty, a memorable script (using excerpts from Sanpedro’s poetry) and superb acting from Javier Bardem. It tackles a difficult subject more thoroughly and engagingly than has ever been done before and kept me wide awake with eyes glued to the screen even after an exhausting day. Its weakest point is that those of a different viewpoint are handled without the gravitas afforded Sanpedro’s own wish to end his life. The visiting priest is an object of ridicule and humour and, while this provides some excellent light relief, it smacks of an absence of intellectual rigour in an otherwise very thorough examination of the issues. But this is only a small criticism in what is otherwise a monumental and highly recommendable film.

Chris Docker

Other Information:

Original Language es
Runtime 2 hr 6 min (126 min)
Budget 12806000
Revenue 38535221
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Biography, Drama
Director Alejandro Amenábar
Writer Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil
Actors Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas
Country Spain, France, Italy
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 69 wins & 38 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)