This episode deals with issues surrounding childhood trauma and spousal abuse.

Making friends can be hard, and the friends you do make at school could be the friends you keep with you forever. Although it can be hard to keep hold of those friends and over time you may drift apart.

Not everybody is meant to stay in touch, though. Sometimes the people we meet in our lives are meant to enrich our experiences and teach us more about who we are.

This week, Film-Ability is watching The Mighty, the 1998 feel-good tearjerker with an all-star cast. Taking two characters with different disabilities and making them friends could easily have been a bit contrived. However, The Mighty shows a nuanced and heartwarming friendship that doesn't overdo the pity.

Film-Ability is written, edited and hosted by Joel Fisher, author of Film-Ability: A History of Disability in Cinema which you can on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.

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This episode contains discussion of PTSD

Sport can be something that either fills somebody with excitement or dread. The thoughts of P.E. lessons at school with a teacher barking at you as you're pushed to the extent of exhaustion can leave anybody with childhood trauma.

However, some strive in the face of a challenge and excel when it comes to competing against others, proving to themselves and others what they're really capable of doing.

Although not everybody is given that chance and that can be down to judgement such a person's physical shape, their physical ability and even their gender. All it takes for one person to see the potential that could be there all along.

This week, Film-Ability will be discussing The Best of Men, the 2012 made-for-TV movie about the founding of what we now know as the Paralympic Games.

A story with simple beginnings that went on to be a global success and inspire a sporting event, showcasing the best disabled athletes in the world. However, being told through the lens of those who do not have first hand experience of disability could lead to problems.

Film-Ability is edited, written and hosted by Joel Fisher, author of Film-Ability: A History of Disability in Cinema that you can find on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.

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This episode discusses issues surrounding assisted dying.

Living in a small town can be hard, you only know a certain amount of people and sometimes the people that you meet may not be right for you. Then one day you may meet somebody you've never even knew was there and they could be just the person you were looking for.

However, everybody comes with baggage and even though you get to know them and grow closer, you may realise that that the there is just no way that the relationship can go forward. Especially when it seems that both people aren't really trying all that hard to find a solution.

This week, Film-Ability is talking about the hit 2016 romcom, Me Before You. The issues surrounding assisted dying don't sound particularly palatable for a light-hearted romcom. However, that doesn't stop the juggernaut that is Hollywood and where there's money to be made, they can just skim over the finer details of the real discussion. Let's just hope the audience realises that it isn't so two-dimensional in real life.

Film-Ability is hosted, edited and written by Joel Fisher, author of Film-Ability: A History of Disability in Cinema that you can find at Amazon in Kindle and paperback.

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