From his stately home, Stevens’ master Lord Darlington and his peers play at international relations and try to avoid another war by pandering to the Nazis, but find they’re woefully under-equipped to decide the fate of Europe in this changing world. The Remains is partly told in flashbacks to the period leading up to the Second World War. And yet, at every opportunity she gives him to do something about it, he balks, squandering the potential for something truly beautiful - something that actually belongs to them, not their aristocratic employer. Stevens (Anthony Hopkins) can’t stifle the blossoming attachment he shares with housemaid Miss Kenton (Emma Thompson). Try as he might to repress his feelings, devoted butler Mr. The visceral pain at the center of this adaptation from period drama powerhouse Merchant-Ivory comes not from fading or unrequited love but unrealized affection. When she’s carried off, it’s Larry Nassar, the pedophile at the center of the documentary, who carries her.Īthlete A is groundbreaking exactly because it illustrates that the problem is not only with one doctor, or the 54 coaches who were also found guilty of sexual abuse, or the morally bankrupt leadership of USA Gymastics it’s also about what went so wrong with society to see the abuse of young girls as cause for celebration. Meanwhile, her family, her coaches, the spectators – the World – is celebrating. She does this twice, limping between attempts and crawling off the mat on the second, crying. In one scene from the 1996 Olympics, gold medalist Kerri Strug has to run, vault, and land – all with a severe foot injury that was covered up by her coaches. Through interviews with Olympians, their families, and investigative reporters, it’s also a documentary on the overall culture of abuse in gymnastics: sexual, physical, and emotional.
This groundbreaking documentary follows the USA Olympics sexual abuse case that made headlines in 2015.
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