Ari Kinarthy is a man with an unwavering commitment to his music. This is a powerful portrayal of someone on a mission, which serves two purposes: one is to share what it’s like living with spinal muscular atrophy type 2 and another is to show how a person who can’t use their legs, has hardly any use of their hands they can’t play an instrument or enter anything into a computer program by typing collaborates to create beautiful music in honor of their parents.
With his disease causing the muscles to waste away over time, this leaves him living each day filled with fear. He has the highest level immunity deficiency and must isolate all flu season long, having no social life whatsoever. But every good dream he has about walking or playing an instrument gets interrupted by constant medical crises that usually come out of nowhere: suddenly not being able to breathe, catching some illness that others get better from in days but can be deadly for him. Scott Laugheed’s animation provides visual context for Ari’s pain and terror.
But he also has hope beyond compare. They told him he’d probably die before turning 30, so now he smiles when thinking back on how much more time he had than predicted and wants to make sure every second counts moving forward too.
He uses really nice musical metaphors like calling his mother ‘a piano’ because she’s so dynamic while describing his father as ‘a cello’ whose presence you can feel deep inside yourself even though it may physically hurt sometimes; and although there are many ways where things hurt physically for Ari right now still must acknowledge privilege: getting around town thanks largely (no pun intended) due only once again here!) expensive wheelchairs operated via joysticks 24/7 round-the-clock care staffed by nurses who know exactly what they’re doing when comes down were always fed growing up.
And talent cannot afford to be wasted. Ari has a grand vision for music and he won’t settle for anything less than that; he wants a symphony. But creating is hard work. Before finishing one thought, he needs to think notes can’t just flow out of his fingers like they do for some people.
And with these melodies, orchestration ideas, tonal shifts needing to align with complex computer programing- there’s got to come along someone who can play them all at once while also being willing put their own compositions on hold serve somebody else’s: enter Allan Slade & Johannes Winkler, both working one-on-one alongside Ari in bringing forth this vision.
The emotional weight of the scenes in which Ari interacts with his collaborators is astounding. Slade and Winkler have shown themselves to be artists of unerring instinct for what this man needs as well as listening devices capable of translating Ari’s complex thoughts into notation that other people can interpret on their own instruments and that he can enjoy hearing. Just watch them talk in quick musical phrases and rhythms, you’ll see how unique their bond is.
Ari does get his wish to make something meaningful but he wants it to be a testament accompanied by home movies featuring his family. However, The Ari Theme is not an inspirational tale about a talented individual stricken with sickness who overcomes adversity no matter how much pride he may take in these accomplishments there is still love missing from his life because when you’re this sick there aren’t many chances left for falling into another person’s arms, if any at all; also besides sadness being already built into the story due to its brevity.
His music plays throughout the film. It’s dark yet beautiful, grandiose while delicate basically every adjective synonymous with “epic” or “tender” that you could think of would apply here given the context we’re working within a documentary feature length movie about one man living out his final days on earth before dying too soon having not achieved nearly enough.
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