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To do so, the filmmakers adopted
"There are certain minorities you're
what Zupan shot from wheelchairs and
born into, like being Jewish, and then
strapping cameras to the chairs during
there are quads who are thrown into a
minority and face all kinds of prejudice," games.
Zupan said he opened up to the direc-
he added.
tors to publicize his sport and to be
As a result, the athletes are "like jock
depicted as normal. "People see quads in
philosophers," Rubin said. They've had
chairs, and they're like,
their diapers changed
`You're different,' and in
and have required other
actuality, we're not," he
personal assistance,
said.
"which humbled them
The movie features
and made them incredi-
frank discussions about
bly introspective."
sex, including positions;
Shapiro identified
Viagra; videos; and how
with his subjects' strug-
to pick up women.
gle with God: "After
Perhaps that's why one
their traumas, these
observer dismissed the
guys do start question-
film as grotesque and
ing, and Judaism
encourages dialogue
Co-directors Henry Alex Rubin exploitative, and asked,
"What's next? A movie
with even the highest
and Dana Adam Shapiro
about midget tossing?"
power. You may not
In response, the film-
come up with answers,
makers pointed out that the response to
but you're allowed to ask, 'Why, why,
Murderballhas been overwhelmingly
why, why, why?'"
positive from both disabled and able-
When the filmmakers began shooting
bodied viewers.
at the 2003 world championships in
"This movie will make you forget
Sweden, the challenge was "breaking
everything you thought you knew
through the yawn barrier," Rubin
about quadriplegics," Shapiro said.
recalled. "When you see something
about disabilities, you just yawn. We did
Murderball is scheduled to open
not want to make a politically correct,
Friday, July 29, at the Landmark
quote-unquote inspirational, cue-the-
Main Art Theatre in Royal Oak.
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Although she did not know the offi-
cial positions of the various rabbinical
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the right-to-die issue.
"Liberal religious leaders raise the
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and painfully suffering, it can be a com-
passionate act to allow them to die.'
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Religion is barely mentioned in The
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