The documentary Murderball (2005) is an interactive documentary directed by Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Sharpia. Murderball is a sport in which the disabled can get away from a difficult life, it is for those who find life challenging and hard to fit in. The director’s aim was to promote the sport and the benefits to the paraplegics, exploring the changes murderball has brought to the disabled. This essay will discuss the important aspects of the construction of the text along with an analysis of important aims, features, the societal values privileged and the positioning of the audience. I will also explain my personal experiences and how my views have been challenged.
Rubin and Sharpia focuses on murderball being, ironically a safe haven for …show more content…
Further focus on this element in life has been brought out through interviews and issues involving the people’s ideas on what life should be like. Due to their disabled nature, multiple clients in hospital when released first ask about their sex life and if they can actually do it. Muderball (2005). The directors use interviews and explicit actuality to position the audience to devalue normal bodily functions. Comments from multiple interviewees suggest that “a normal life, will never be the same anymore” Murderball (2005) and it assumes that their physical and sexual needs are of utmost importance to normal life. This is one example of the inadequacies felt by those young athletes. The directors used interviews to suggest that being disabled was problematic in terms of being completely unable to do some other every day routines and functions. Keith, disabled through a motorbike describes being hospitalized and having “his bum whipped by a nurse because he couldn’t whip his own arse.” Murderball (2005) For two years, the lives of those who were once perfect, are rebuilt. The directors also privilege how disadvantage and adversity can bring the best out in people. When the head coach of Canada, Joe, survives a heart attack, he changes personality suddenly and becomes a less strict father, a nicer person then previously and a generally better person. Murderball (2005) The interaction with filmmakers and people like Joe position the audience’s knowledge around something else good coming from despair. Zupan, one of wheel chair rugby’s biggest ambassadors of the game, whilst in a wheel chair has turned his life around by reaching out to those who are less fortunate in terms of not knowing what to do with their lives. Murderball (2005) He has provided the hope for those who are impaired for greatness. The