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‘Ghost Boy’ Review: Rodney Ascher’s Doc Is An Extraordinary Story Of Human Resilience – SXSW
‘Ghost Boy’ review: Rodney Ascher’s chilling doc is an extraordinary story of human resilience – SXSW
The theories raised ranged from the esoteric to the ridiculous, but Ascher’s straightforward, non-judgmental approach proved surprisingly effective; though it has long been debunked, the fanciful thought that Kubrick made the film to exorcize his guilt about faking the moon landing footage in 1969 is enticing and still hard to shake off. Mixing traditional doc methods with recreations and creepy genre-movie inflections, that film provided an unsettling exploration of sleep paralysis, a condition in which the mind is wide awake, but the body is frozen. He also has a great sense of humor, saying that by the time he was consigned to a wheelchair, “I resembled a pot plant, something to be given water and left in a corner.” That Pistorius can laugh about anything at all is a minor miracle in itself, knowing that his condition almost drove his mother to a nervous breakdown and recalling her saying — to his face — “You must die.
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