{"id":106840,"date":"2012-10-13T04:23:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T11:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=106840"},"modified":"2012-10-12T21:25:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T04:25:12","slug":"head-games-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/10\/13\/head-games-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Head Games Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Head Games<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Steve James<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There may not be a more important documentary released this year for the general health of\u00a0especially sports-playing American kids\u00a0than\u00a0&#8220;Head Games,&#8221; director Steve James&#8217; impactful look at the trauma inflicted by repeated concussions. Using Chris Nowinski&#8217;s November 2006 book of the same name as a leaping-off point, the film digs into chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or CTE) and its long-term links to memory loss, early-onset dementia, depression and even suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Nowinski, a former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, knows of what he writes and speaks. After his professional wrestling career was cut short from the lingering after-effects concussion, he went on to research and write his exhaustively footnoted book, and eventually c0-found the Sports Legacy Institute with Dr. Robert Cantu, in reaction to a new crop of medical research showing\u00a0brain trauma\u00a0to be both a latent and booming\u00a0public health crisis. Nowinski was at the forefront of some of this research, too, convincing the families of a handful of recently deceased athletes to donate their brains for scientific study.<\/p>\n<p>Owing to the fact that\u00a0the NFL\u00a0is where the story broke and played out, after the 2006 suicide of\u00a0ex-Philadelphia Eagles\u00a0defensive back\u00a0Andre Waters, &#8220;Head Games&#8221;\u00a0devotes about the first half of its 91-minute running time to professional football before cycling through progressively less time devoted to NHL hockey and soccer &#8212; as funneled through the perspectives of former player Keith Primeau and Olympic medalist Cindy Parlow, respectively &#8212; and, essentially, a third act-as-closing argument. Nowinski shares his own experiences, as does his best friend and college teammate, while &#8220;New York Times&#8221; writer Alan Schwarz walks viewers through the unfolding story from his perspective. &#8220;In most other sports the chance of injury is incidental; in football the chance of injury and long-term impact is fundamental,&#8221; says sportscaster Bob Costas, one of the movie&#8217;s interviewees.<\/p>\n<p>Still, &#8220;Head Games&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a jeremiad or hand-wringing assault on all physical activity, though. While the brutal collisions of football &#8212; from its high-speed set pieces like kickoffs to the grind of offensive and defensive line trench warfare, where not long ago head-smacking was allowed &#8212; get the most attention, James (&#8220;Hoop Dreams&#8221;) uses the articulate Nowinski and others to sketch out a timeline of changing dynamics, and how research can hopefully be used to foster better concussion diagnosis, and perhaps even develop better equipment. Smartly, the director doesn&#8217;t overload his movie with voices; the doctors number no more than a half dozen, and this tightened focus benefits the material.<\/p>\n<p>The first-person testimonials of the aforementioned ex-athletes\u00a0carry a lot of\u00a0significance\u00a0as well, and give the movie sympathetic heft. Parlow talks\u00a0about suffering from chronic headaches during her career, and even now always leaving on her car&#8217;s GPS guidance system, even on familiar streets. 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