Endurance movie haile gebrselassie biography
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This docudrama failed to involve me the viewer, as the point of including recreation aspects - intercut with documentary footage - was too obtuse to be impactful. This is a very delicate and beautiful picture, one of the few that believes in restraint and mood. I think it recounts an important event in the Olympic, and it comes across as you are watching the film.
Don't go expecting another Without Limits, just go.
This is a very good film that has an entertaining story, the film has room for improvement, and certain aspects of the film could have been improved upon. Endurance is one of the rare Ethiopian films that stands tall, and it deserves to be seen by everyone.
La razón por la que decidí ver esta película/documental del increíble corredor de Etiopía “Haile Gebrselassie”, es por la música.
The secret of his greatness, we gather, is that he ran and ran, longer and harder than anyone else, until in his big race he was simply the best prepared.
There are glimpses of his personal life. He didn’t come from a background of training, coaching and determination, but from the rural hills, where we see him running to school, running to the water well, running to the fields, always with that stoic thrumming of his breath.
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He is compact, wiry, muscular. The movie barely uses any dialog to tell it's story, instead relying on images and music for dramatic weight.
He determined to become a runner, and we see him as a boy (played by his nephew, Yonas Zergaw) running everywhere on the farm where his family of 12 lived in a mud hut.
Gebrselassie himself takes over the role as a teenager, and there is a scene where he and his father stand on a hilltop, the landscape unfolding below them, as he explains his plans to go to Addis Ababa to go into serious training for the Olympics.
It's thrilling to watch Haile grow up and become the success he is today (Running Magazine calls him "The best long distance runner ever.") Even though we know how the Olympic race comes out, I couldn't help but be overwhelmed with emotion at the result. There is a lot of time to be by yourself in a 10,000-meter race.
I learn from the Variety review of the film that the filmmakers had the eight leading contenders under contract, so that they were almost assured of being able to tell the story of the winner.
By the time I left the theater, I was really aware of how little perseverance most of us have. Comparing this to Malick's recent "Thin Red Line" is appropriate due to both film's insistence to tell the story through nature and the "you are there" camerawork. "Endurance" tells the simple story of Haile Gebrsellasie, a meek Ethiopian farmboy who dreamed of a career in long distance running.
After praying it would disappear after a week into the run, the film stayed longer, forcing me to reconsider whether or not to skip it. Beginning, with real footage, at the 1996 Olympics where Haile competes for the gold medal, the film takes us back to show the runner's home life. It may not resonate all that much with someone who doesn't see the appeal in distance running and has never been to Africa, but I found it strangely compelling in a low-key way.