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Please help to answer these question base on the movie "Lorenzo's Oil"

1. Does this movie challenge medical assumptions? Name three.

2. What disease is Lorenzo fighting? Is there a cure?

3. Does the passive role of the parents' in the support group frustrate you? Why or why not?

4. Do you think guilt plays a role in Michaela's devotion to her son/his care? Why? Why not?

5. What was the general "take away" message of this movie?

Answer 1

1.This story is an inspiration to all parents and makes the world realise that the parents can do anything beyond their limits to save the lifes of their child.It at the end challenges the medical associations in the following way

• The medical assumption in regards to the survival period in ADL is over tracked by the patient living nearly for two decades from the diagnosis of the disease
• It can make the medical professionals (researchers) in a place of critics that they lack taking adequate steps or measures to find a remedy for a disease
• The patient regained his vision,consciousness to an extent after the use of the extract from the olive oil and rapeseed oil.
• Further innovation to be done in cell biology

2.Lorenzo is fighting a incurable disease like adrenoleukodystrophy.

deposition of fatty acids in the brain cells destroys the myelin sheath and resulting in associated symptoms to the patient)

3.This cannot frustrate a person who are spectator and criticizing the parents for their role.Rather this can create a sense of pathetic situation and melt the feelings of others by seeing how a parent is struggling to save the life of the child.

4.This disease happens due to autosomal recessive gene expression and it is by the creation of the God. There can be little guilt for the parents trying to survive their child besides having the unpleasant and painful experiences with neurological impairment

5.This movie gives an inspiration to fight till you find the right solution for the problem. There should be a try always before making a final decision.