Concussion Movie Analysis

"Banging heads is not a natural thing I was scared I 'd fail and I ' m still scared of that all we have to do is finish the game if we finish we win," stated pro football player Mike Webster during a conference. Being inducted into the hall of fame for football is legendary. It is something every player wants, and they will go through unbearable circumstances to achieve this goal. “Concussion,” directed by Peter Landesman, hit theaters on December 15, 2015, and is about actual events that eventually led to the rule concerning the concussion protocol in the National Football Leauge. This film zeros in on the harsh reality of fighting against an extensive cooperation like the NFL and the pros and cons related to playing the action packed, fan favorite sport, ‘football. ' …show more content…
Bennet Omalu, who is a forensic pathologist that determined the sudden death of pro athlete Mike Webster to be brain trauma which he had sustained throughout his football career. Omalu diagnosed the brain disorder as CTE also called Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, which slowly "chokes the brain" and leaves it unresponsive to the world. The movie shows the dramatic struggles and hardships that Smiths character Omalu endures as he fights to express the truth behind the deaths of such young athletes. Throughout the film, it is easy to feel the agony these patients and their loved ones had to deal with while the NFL ignored the seriousness of their conditions and covered as being more related to early onset Alzheimer 's