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Cancer Major 
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DISABILITY |
Cancer
Leukemia |
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Vincent
Phillip D'Onofrio |
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NOTES |
Romance is
clearly the favourite mode for revealing the |
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meaning of
disability. Julia Roberts is a young woman who |
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becomes a
nurse/companion to a wealthy man with |
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leukaemia.
They fall in love, who wouldn't with Roberts, and |
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who doesn't
with their nurse, secretary, teacher et al? |
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Roberts
grows into the job. Earlier she had doubts about her |
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competence.
Scott (the rich young man) undergoes |
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chemotherapy
and remission. And he doesn't die, at least on |
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camera. This
does for the dying what 'Pretty Woman' did for |
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Watched this
again, it doesn't get any better. |
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J.R. is
pretending to be a working class girl who walks out on |
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her
boyfriend when she finds him in bed with another woman. |
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Coming from
Oakland, Cal. establishes her as working class |
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which is a
bit unfair on its inhabitants. But I've been through |
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the station
which is the gateway to San Francisco. and I know |
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what they're
getting at. Her own mother calls her a loser. But |
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in no time
she's got herself a job on Nob Hill, S.F. looking after the
paralysed son of a rich man. She wore the shortest dress by a
yard to the interview and wasn't too particular about
keeping her knees together. And can you blame him for falling for
her. He's been paralysed for 10 years since he was 18 years
old. |
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At first she
just feels sorry for him during his retching attacks |
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resulting
from the chemo. |
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He tries to
impress her with his studies for a Ph.D in art, the |
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Impressionists (taking him 5 years so far) |
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She puts him
on a healthy diet, you can't see the kitchen top |
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for
vegetables. And for some reason we see her putting |
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mayonaise on
her hair. Is this a tip for us or him. |
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He takes her
to a posh restaurant, she doesn't like that. She |
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takes him to
a night club, he doesn't care for that. And so |
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they take
off the seaside. He gives up his chemo treatment and appears to be
doing well. At which point she says there's no job for her
anymore. But that night he gets into her bed.
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