Masculinity In Murderball

Rubin and Shapiro’s inspiring documentary, Murderball, associates with the notion of “masculinity” as expressed in Cynthia Barounis’ “Crippling Heterosexuality” by zeroing in on the combative habits of a quad rugby player, the essence of the sport, and the relationships of the players with their significant others. Murderball illustrates the game previously known as “Murderball,” now referred to as wheel chair rugby, and the experiences of Team U.S.A. and Team Canada to the 2004 Paralympics. It can be discussed that the reason for creating this documentary was to reveal the amount of rivalry that occurs between people with disabilities or how their lives have been changed from having to be in a wheelchair. As we watch the film, the continued theme of the movie is that if you believe in …show more content…
The men do so by using violence to complete this task. During the game, the participants get knocked over, pushed around, and ran into to prevent them from getting into the end zone. You can feel the intense adrenaline as you watch the players in their game. Going past the fact that these guys play this sport, the background stories of the members express excessive masculinity. Mark Zupan was put into a wheelchair from being thrown from a bed of friends truck. He landed several feet away in a wash where he held onto a tree for almost 14 hours to survive; Keith Cavill was injured in a motocross accident which caused him to have a broken neck and unable to walk, Andy Cohn suffered a spinal cord injury at sixteen years old, Bob Lujano was diagnosed with a rare blood disease when he was a child, and Scott Hogsett was thrown from a balcony in a fist fight while in College. We meet Joe Soares who suffers from polio and lost a leg because of it. He came from a poor family who couldn’t afford a wheelchair for him right away so he spend some of his life having to drag himself around. He suffered greatly in school from peers and had to fight