It
was one of the most interesting documentary I have seen, 'The Wings of
Life', produced in Spain, directed by Antoni P. Canet. A visual and
audio collection of testimonies of Carlos Cristos, a medico doctor,
whose reflections are more of a philosopher, on life and existence.
At the age of just 47, Dr. Carlos Cristos was diagnosed with multiple and systematic atrophy - a terrible neurodegenerative disease that goes progressively paralysing him in all areas, mental and physical, until his death. There's no treatment for this. He had to, therefore, confront his fatal destiny face to face.
With the intention of being useful to others in similar condition, he asked his friend, Antoni P. Canet, a film director not quite prolific, to make a documentary recording the last years of his life, before he entered the terminal phrase when he became incoherent or void of faculties.
The brave and admirable doctor, together with his wife Carmen Font, also a doctor, asked for a dignified end of his final existence, at the same time giving the spectators a lesson beyond price, of vitality and courage to confront the inevitable death.
Should you have the chance, it's a documentary well made, without self pity and over sentimentalism; well worth watching.
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