This article contains mild spoilers for "Novakain".

Cinema has always been an excellent source for the appearance of truth than the truth itself. This is partly because the truth is a difficult thing to define in the best cases; Everything from the legal system to news reporting has shown us that even something like supposedly cold and difficult as the facts will argue about advertising. All this is to say that, of course, fantastic movies have never been and will never be appropriate to be used as a primary source of factual information. It is usually nothing unusual about this, but it is a by -product of the ultimate goal of telling a story, and it is best to improve the drama and experience of the audience, often to the detriment of reality.

With this understood, there are examples of films that manage to stick the needle between fiction and reality well enough that, although they are not 100% accurate, still treat the chosen subject with respect and understanding. Given the now well -established practice for most films to hire a technical advisor or equivalent role of one production, most films at least try to present everything from military maneuvers to medical practices as accurately as possible on the screen, and it tends to expand to other experiences in real life.

One area that has a bunch of performance by most is a portrayal of medical conditions, where sometimes the case is incorrectly or offensive. Fortunately, it seems not the case "Novocain", which opens in cinema this weekend. The film says that Nathan Kane lives with the situation known as CIP (congenital insensitivity to pain) From birth, which is an innate question that does not allow him to feel pain. While calling this condition is allegedly an excuse to cast every character in a series of sequences of combat sequences where he takes licking and continues to tick, his treatment and screening in the film (including Nathan's character as a whole) is highly respected, and an excellent example of a genre of film.

The concept of nausea, extinguishing, and even laughing at those different in the world is the one that unfortunately has deep roots in culture and entertainment. After all, such things as carnival sides, places that usually put people with physical differences, before the end of the 20th century. Although modern society has generally moved from such others (well, at least that version of it, however), it is still not so uncommon to have a film to use a state of real life for dramatic purposes that are wrong. For example, though still Split in 2016 used the real state of dissociative disorder of identity as a springboard for its excitement to the genre (and, given the film twists, also for a small hand), found under fire too fast and a kilo with the reality of DID. In a similar way, 2016 is "Accountant" It uses autism to the main character as a supposedly realistic way to give him a "superpower" in his ability to quickly analyze and repair accounting records, but his performance has done a wrong way.

In both examples, the conditions shown are allegedly used as narrative shortcuts, a way to explain the increased abilities of each character as they try to keep films based in a real world. One of the ways in which screenwriter Novokaine Lars Jaceacobson and directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen avoid this rate is constantly maintaining Nathan and his struggles as alive, rather than using the CIP as an ordinary excuse for a stepping dashboard to go to the wild. CIP is enough rare for condition - so far only appears in approximately every 1 to 25,000 births around the world - that the film can get about a few issues of credibility here and there, but never goes too far in its picture that it feels like ignoring the situation together.

As Nathan describes it to Jerry (Amber Midtunder), his Love -Board interest in the film, a CIP (also known as innate analgesia) is a condition in which a person cannot feel and never felt pain. This means that life is more difficult for them, no less, because the sensation of physical pain helps with greater problems, such as programming our brains in terms of survival instincts and smaller ones, as it is not to prevent them from accidentally getting hurt (including, as Nathan is particularly problematic. As with most rare conditions of this kind, medical professionals are not clear from the exact cause of CIP, citing everything from genetic mutation to increased production of endorphins in the brain as a possible cause. There are also two main types of CIP, one where a person cannot feel the stimulus of what causes them physical pain, and another where the stimulus can recognize them, but their response is non -existent or inappropriate (for the record, Novocaine generally shows the former type).

While most people living with CIP lead careful existence, there is still no cure for security, and the life expectancy of those with a condition is not long (it is all explained by Nathan early in the film). "Novocaine" uses Nathan's condition in a way that makes it exciting, even aspirative, rather than impossible and stimulating. Since Nathan is not a trained fighter, his execution of the bank robbers who kidnap Jerry involves his ability to use his condition to give him enough endurance to use the objects around him to deal with some injuries to his enemies. So, instead of in a non -permanent combat sequence that includes many professional combat techniques, Novocain allows Nathan to fight his heart and head more than his hands, doing things to deliberately throw fists into knives with broken glass in order to make a DIY version of brass. Although the fungi in the film are inspired, the script maintains Nathan's living condition in the way his many injuries still prevent him because they do not recover. As reminiscent of Nathan's internet, Rosko (Jacecob Batalon), he is not Wolverine.

Of course, "Novokain" is primarily an action movie, and as such it deals with the entertaining value of CIP, rather than engaging in dirt on the situation. However, the most fantastic aspect of the film is how it treats its characters with a surprising amount of depth and respect. This applies not only to Nathan's treatment, but also to the way Nathan and Jerry's romance is allowed to breathe in front of the proverb - T hit the fan, a quality that tons of other action films often overlook and/or take for granted. This approach probably stems from how the film tries to be as round as possible, stirring together Elements of Action, Horror, Film Noir and Romantic Comedymaking filmmakers think more than just setting up here or there.

This respected approach to characterization makes Nathan fascinating and relatively protagonist, especially since he is never treated with children's bracelets. Is allowed to be awkward, naive, too big and Especially uninformed when it comes to the big turn of the movie. However, we never feel like we audiences are invited to laugh at him because we are with him from the beginning. One of the most valuable and personally relevant aspects of his image is how Nathan is someone who lives with a condition that cannot reveal the naked eye. In essence, he is someone who can "pass" in social situations as an average direct white friend, allowing him a presumed level of privilege and the like, yet he sometimes finds himself explaining to a cute girl who loves her that she has certain unusual dietary restrictions. Like someone who lived with several autoimmune disorders since the early 20s, I was thrilled to see that Nathan was not treated as if anyone was pitying or having fun. Instead, the film accurately shows him as a living of his life despite a number of differences from the experience of average people, everything from having to set an alarm for a watch to use the bathroom to make drinks for himself every morning.

It is the real secret of using a realistic state in the film: presenting it as a fact, not abnormal, and even "special". We are trained by thousands of films to see the quirks and unusuals of the character as additives, not subtraction, so by presenting the state in this way, the use of the condition goes in more room for the development of the characters, rather than having a tricky box drawn around it. As Jerry explains during her Lovebean scene with Nathan (another example of a positive display in itself - he may have sex!), Everyone has his scars, their problems, their something that makes them feel like standing out. "Novokain" and his treatment of the CIP are a great reminder that our differences and conditions do not have to make us feel broken, or rejected, or alone. For a movie about different forms of pain, it feels pretty damn well.