Chilean Cinema

The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) - Alejandro Amenábar

A subterranean quadriplegic fights for the right to a dignified death for three agonizingly continuous decades, wrestling fearlessly despite his benumbed body for a freedom that eliminates life. The Sea Inside is director Alejandro Amenábar’s powerful 2004 Oscar winning film, Based on a true life story of Ramon Sampedro, a traveling sailor who was paralyzed neck down after a deathlike accident… A stirring account of a man’s appeal for the right to release from his crippled life, disabled love, claustrophobic…