Click to play videoBelieve me, some of the best stories, some of the most interesting themes you will find in foreign films.
Take the case of the Spanish film, The Sea Inside which I'm going to recommend today.
It's a picture about a man who was paralyzed from neck down in a diving accident, a man who's been bed-ridden for the last 26 years.
The film really focuses on this man's struggle, his battle with the Catholic Church and the Spanish Courts for the right to die, because he feels that "a life in this condition has no dignity."
Now well-known Spanish actor Javier Bardem plays the protagonist who ages from 18 to his mid-50s, and Bardem is such a fantastic actor, he achieves this remarkably.
What I really found interesting about this film is the conflict that it leaves you in, the dilemma that it puts you in.
On the one hand you do feel like a man should be allowed to decide if he wants to live or die.
But on the other you also do feel like this man has so much to live for - he has a doting family, loyal friends, everything.
For a film that's going to move you to tears, it's also got its fair share of humour, which is so imaginative and unpredictable.
It's a film that will leave you with a lump in your throat. I also suspect it's a film you'll want to talk about immediately after you've watched it.
It's one of those rare bittersweet films that you'll remember long after you've seen it, because these are exactly the kind of films they don't make too often.
I'm sure any good DVD library will have a copy of The Sea Inside, believe me, it's a film you're not prepared for, and therefore it's a film that will surprise you with how beautifully it unfolds and how easily it engages you.
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