Wanted more about Ray and his mother.

Rating: Null/10 (17 November 2004)

I agree that the movie doesn't chronicle Ray's life as fully as potentially possible. I believe that happened because of a possible rush to get it on to the big screen, maybe in time for next year's Oscar awards. I enjoyed it quite well and Jamie is worthy of an Oscar nomination. It would have been nice to see more on Ray's mother, like, if she lived long enough to see his successes and failures. There are scenes of her in his memory and his reflections on her, that impacted his life which are all good but seeing as how she impacted on how his life turned out, there should have been more 'real images' of her, along with his internalization of how she affected his life. I was lost as to what happened to her, as there is no information about how long she lived and how she died. The last real images I remembered seeing of her only come up to when she sends him away, while still a child and tells him not to become a cripple. The husband and father not shown or referenced to at all, is completely understood.