The story of a terminally ill man’s struggle with the Spanish courts to allow him to commit suicide may sound like a real downer, but The Sea Inside is poetic, devoutly humanistic and ultimately life-affirming film. We watch a man suffer through the indignities and loss of independence that’s inevitable with his condition, but we also watch him soar, literally and figuratively, with dreams and words and an unstoppable conviction and bravery.
