Summary Of The Movie 'Analyzing Including Samuel'

Analyzing Including Samuel
I watched the film “Including Samuel” in class a few weeks ago. During the film it discussed many topics about the lives and families of people with disabilities. The film explains the struggles of inclusion of people with disabilities. The film shows real life examples of this and how these people try their best to fit in but really can’t. The film also talks about how these people with disabilities are being segregated and simply forgotten about like they don’t even exist. In addition to everything the film also slightly discusses the financial strain that comes with taking care of someone with a disability. All in all, this film successfully discusses and shows some of the struggles of a life with a disability, and is therefore persuasive in explaining the problems with interaction between people with disabilities, and the rest of the world.
The film was very effective illustrating the problem of how people with disabilities are being segregated and forgotten about. The film gives examples and shows how this is happening too. One example given was that the film said in most public schools, kids that don’t have a disability are having little to no interaction with kid’s that have disabilities. These kids with …show more content…
During the film it effectively talks about how having a disability causes a financial strain on the family that takes care of the person with the disability. The film gives an example of how Samuel has a wheelchair and how his family pays thousands of dollars for it, and even more money for devices for Samuel to get around his house. The film also shows how Samuel’s family has to pay for his very expensive medicine that he has to have, to function somewhat normally. This financial burden causes stress among the caregivers because, most people don’t have enough money to pay for everything the person with the disability needs as by Samuel’s family in the