An excellent movie based on the true story of the doctor who discovered CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) in football players (2005), and the uphill battle he faced in bringing the information to the public. Terrific acting by Will Smith. I highly recommend it.In September 2015, researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University announced that they had identified CTE in 96 percent of NFL players that they had examined and in 79 percent of all football players.
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy
From Other Reviews:
The theme of individuals fighting the system has been a popular one at the movies lately, perhaps because the only thing more gratifying than amassing power is challenging it. We’ve seen this underdog-against-the-system play out in Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, where a team of dogged journalists take on the entrenched power of the Roman Catholic Church to expose widespread sexual abuse of children; in Adam McKay’s The Big Short, which pits a few individual investors and fund managers against the entirety of Wall Street just before the mortgage meltdown in 2007; and also in David O. Russell’s Joy, in which a struggling single mother attempts to make it against all odds as an inventor and businesswoman. Add to that list Peter Landesman’s Concussion, which follows the story of a forensic pathologist who takes on the National Football League in bringing attention to the medical problems suffered by players whose brains have been rattled by thousands and thousands of on-field collisions into a mess of memory loss, depression, violent behavior, and psychosis. As one character puts it, “You’re taking on a business that owns a day of the week!”
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