Can the artist be separated from the art? It’s a personal matter for the people who found Szukalski and later made this movie. The question that lingers is how exactly can this forgotten-genius story be reshaped by the discovery of his twisted opinions.

Szukalski’s past is full of a lot of antisemitism, sexism and bigotry. Remember the weird characteristics I mentioned in that first sentence? Here we go. The funny thing is that he seemed to be well aware of this fact himself. In these interviews it becomes clear that Szukalski is pure genius. He was helped by George DiCaprio, who would later produce this movie with his son Leonardo (!). The documentary, Struggle: The Life And Lost Art Of Szukalski, is a collection of tapes from numerous interviews in the 1980s between the collector and Szukalski. He traces him down and finally locates him living anonymously in a California suburb. There was almost no reference to the artist, but upon research the collector finds that they are by a man called Stanislav Szukalski. This is an amazing documentary but be warned, the main character has some weird characteristics.īy coincidence, an art collector stumbles upon an undiscovered collection of sculptures and paintings that can only be described as the work of a genius.

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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