Turn away now if you never seen the movie EDEN. This is a total movie spoiler!



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I finally saw the 1996 movie 'EDEN' in which portrays a young wife and mother married to a college teacher who is also coping with the effects of Multiple Sclerosis the best she can in the year 1965.

Throughout the movie she is wearing a full length leg brace on her weak leg. I guess that is the best they had in 1965, looked uncomfortable. As the movie goes on you see her gradual decline in function and terrible fatigue problems we all know.

I think it was pretty good, but a bit exaggerated. She eventually slips into a coma and I had no idea that this can cause a coma? in 1965 possibly. At the end she comes out of the coma after a severe flare and resumes like she always had, clunky leg brace and everything.

I dunno... it sort of slammed in your face every time she got anew symptom and that clunky brace of hers drove me nuts. She walked like frankenstein.

Sometimes movies and/or TV are bigger than life a and exaggerate things into caricatures or use no subtlety at all to present stereotypes or popular conceptions of types of people. TV and movies seldom portray true full portrayals of things. One of the problems is some people see that or read a newspaper or magazine article and now think they're experts on the subject. I'm sure they mean well, but.......