Door to Door - moviethreads again

[Kashluk]

Once again, full of SPOILERS

I really liked it. To those who haven't seen it, a quick description would be: "an average drama based on real life story".

So it's about this disabled guy, Bill Porter, who is told by everyone to stay on the couch and do nothing, because he'd manage to do the same stuff as healthy people would. But her mother always tells him to do his best and his father tells him that it's his duty to work for a living, a real man's life. So in the end, this guy who's right half of the body is pretty much ruined, struggles in the job of a door-to-door salesman.

Eventually he ends up supporting his old mother, who becomes mentally ill and lives in an old people's home. Then he becomes the salesman of the year after a decade (or two) of long houred days, with the highest amount of sales both measured in dollars and item quantities.

The movie's nothing special, but the whole struggle kinda stirred something inside me. If a man with a half of a body can live such a resourceful life (both socially and economically), why do we have all these redneck beer-drinking unemployment compensation reseaving people out there?

And visiting www.billporter.com showed that the movie doesn't hold much improvisation in it, unlike *AHEM* Beautiful Mind *AHEM* for example. The stuff that happens in this movie is actually based on Bill Porter's real life instead of "director's artistic freedom" and shit.

Yay, discuss, if anyone cares.

[Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD]

i can honestly say id never see that movie, EVER.
sounds like shit.

[Kashluk]

If you're not a friend of an average drama film, sure it will. This one just happens to be a quality one, with that little spice called "based on a real story".

[cerdojudíodemierdaasno]

Once again, full of SPOILERS

I really liked it. To those who haven't seen it, a quick description would be: "an average drama based on real life story".

So it's about this disabled guy, Bill Porter, who is told by everyone to stay on the couch and do nothing, because he'd manage to do the same stuff as healthy people would. But her mother always tells him to do his best and his father tells him that it's his duty to work for a living, a real man's life. So in the end, this guy who's right half of the body is pretty much ruined, struggles in the job of a door-to-door salesman.

Eventually he ends up supporting his old mother, who becomes mentally ill and lives in an old people's home. Then he becomes the salesman of the year after a decade (or two) of long houred days, with the highest amount of sales both measured in dollars and item quantities.

The movie's nothing special, but the whole struggle kinda stirred something inside me. If a man with a half of a body can live such a resourceful life (both socially and economically), why do we have all these redneck beer-drinking unemployment compensation reseaving people out there?

And visiting www.billporter.com showed that the movie doesn't hold much improvisation in it, unlike *AHEM* Beautiful Mind *AHEM* for example. The stuff that happens in this movie is actually based on Bill Porter's real life instead of "director's artistic freedom" and shit.

Yay, discuss, if anyone cares.

I watched it, it's a very heartwarming, feelgood movie that is all the better because it's true. As for it being nothing special I suppose but It's a pretty good movie.

[Kashluk]

Yeah, heartwarming's the word.