Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

SanEat A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

raghavrastogi-97751 "Breathe" is beautiful film on the life of Mr. & Mrs. Robin Cavendish. Robin, completely body-paralyzed due to polio, is, according to his doctors, doomed to live his small & miserable life bed-ridden in the hospital. But, as Robin says, the doctors never give thought on things that are believed to be impossible. With the help of his family and trustful friends, Robin not only conquered his own misery but also helped other paralyzed patients live better dignified lives beyond the walls of the hospital.The film delivers good in terms of acting performances by Andrew Garfield (as Robin Cavendish) and Claire Roy (as Diana Cavendish). The film provokes the thought of how even a so-believed 'disabled' person was able to bring hope and happiness in the lives of people he touched. And for that, some of the unnecessarily lengthy scenes in the end are totally excused. The film is a good watch for its beauty, ideal life partner depiction, inspirational theme and impactful acting by cast.

Neil Welch Newlyweds Robin and Diana Cavendish are entering a happy family life when Robin is suddenly struck by polio and left paralysed from the neck down, dependent on a ventilator to breathe. The medical profession regard their job as ending at preventing him from dying. Robin is not interested in existing on that basis, but Diana wants him to see their son grow up and so a plot is hatched to create a mobile ventilator and, against all medical advice, remove him from hospital and take him home. Robin not only enjoys a full life, but becomes a forceful and active advocate on behalf of emancipating the profoundly handicapped from imprisonment in hospital.This adaptation of Robin and Diana Cavendish's life story is (co-)produced by their son Andrew, and directed by Andy Serkis, better known for his motion-capture performances as Gollum, King Kong, and chimpanzee Caesar. On the basis of this film, he is an accomplished director.This is not a naturally happy subject - the central character is paralysed for life early on - but it is thoroughly engaging in the telling, profoundly uplifting and inspirational, and often surprisingly funny.It is helped enormously by Andrew Garfield as Robin (Claire Foy as Diana is also very good, although the role is pretty thankless). The depths of his despair are not shied away from, but the Robin portrayed in this film is a funny, happy man who almost glows with joy. Far from being simply not dead, and notwithstanding his total reliance on machinery and his support team of family and friends, the Robin Cavendish portrayed in this film truly Lives.This is that rarity, a worthy film which is also enormously entertaining and emotional.

TxMike My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.Andrew Garfield is really excellent in the part of Robin Cavendish who in 1958, at the age of 28, contracted polio while in Kenya on business. I remember polio well, I was a boy in the 1950s and I remember taking the Salk vaccine. It is a devastating illness, it usually causes paralysis which is not reversible. Typically polio victims were given a few months to live and were kept hospitalized, on a ventilator, unable to breathe on their own. After about a year Robin began to ask why he couldn't be moved to his home and kept on a ventilator there. Eventually he was and with the help of a friend had devices built, with battery operated ventilators, that would allow him initially to go outdoors then to even take trips. And devices which operated by slight movements of his head.The meat of this movie is what he accomplished after he left the hospital, particularly how he helped open up development of batter ways to care for those with similar afflictions.He eventually died in 1994, about 35 years after contracting polio. It is implied though not stated in the movie that he chose his time of death by having a doctor administer a medicine so that his ventilator could be unplugged and he could died peacefully and painlessly.

ronfernandezsf A good movie based on a real life polio victim. Could have been called A REAL LOVE STORY. All the elements are there for a tear jerker and is well made and acted by the two leads. Seemed a bit rushed at the start as there was no real build up of the love between the two main characters. So much happens much too soon. Wondering why the writers didn't go into detail about how the couple survived financially or did Robin have any family. No mention is made of a mother or father. Surly they would have been at the house helping one way or the other unless he was an only child and the parents were deceased. Should have been more clear on his family. Diana's mother is only shown for a second or two. Did she help? Andrew Garfield did seem to age some, but Claire Foy looked about the same throughout the time element of 1958-1981. Minor quibbles, but more detail on how they survived and his family would have made the film a little more realistic.