Gleason

Very uplifting.

Just like a good sports movie should be (Weather it’s a documentary or not) Gleason is very upbeat and makes you feel bad about not getting up off your ass to do something with your life.

What I like especially about the film is Steve Gleason’s positive tempo. He’s a fighter and you can tell. The documentary keeps tabs on the amount of time Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is taking to effect his body. For a while I did not really notice that anything was changing, it was not until others in the documentary pointed things out, that I realized the effect it was taking.

Keeping an uptempo as he watched from a chair his son growing up was hard on him, so there were times when he broke down and that’s understandable, cause he’s human, that is the reason he was making this documentary, to show his son what type of man he is, and the best part is that he broke down but didn’t break. He picked himself up and kept going.

Same goes for his wife. She’s a strong beautiful woman, who was going through it the same as him, and it was hard for her to keep it together but she’s going strong. You can’t help but to tear up a little over that.

It’s an inspirational story about what can happen if you never give up on life, and a touching story of a father making a connection with his son.