After watching heroic Sams documentary,I have NO problems in life.
I cannot complain about anything.
His drumming was awesome to watch.I will always think of him when I see ANY marching band.
Dr.'s Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns,his parents,went above and beyond with the daily struggle.
Life According to Sam is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. I don't see how someone cannot watch this film and not feel something, for Sam or for his mother and father.
Sam had the maturity and perspective of someone beyond his years and he figured it out. There's two ways to spend your life, watching it go by or living it. Sam chose to live it with his time here on Earth. Not everyone does that.
Sam had a lot to live for, I hope Dr. Leslie Gordon and her team discovers a cure within their lifetime.
More people need to watch this. I saw it on HBO Go.
"Toto, I've [got] a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
Problems with the documentary, definitely.
There was very little if any discussion about what effect the drug was supposed to have on the limited number of test subjects -- arrest progression or reverse it?
There was zero discussion about Leslie's role on the research team -- as a mother of one of the patients she has a distinct conflict of interest in the results, so was she the leader, as the doc pretty much portrayed, or an just the founder? She does get Sam's results later in the film like any other participant, but that does not really obviate the conflict.
There was no mention of the two publications that rejected the paper, nor of the one that accepted it.
There was much filler involving mother Leslie's dedication and research -- it's like, okay, we get it -- wonderful woman and all -- but cutting it to size would have made the doc closer to an hour, which I think it should've been to begin with. Or, they could've added more interviews with the other kids in the study or even more with Sam himself; if you think about it, there's surprisingly little of it in the film.