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<\/a><\/p>\nIf you are in any way weak in spirit you will be stronger after watching this true story\/ documentary about the fierce and courageous Eduardo Garcia. This\u00a0 is a survival story. This is Eduardo Garcia’s survival story!<\/p>\n
Edward’s father moved out on his family when he was a young child.\u00a0 Edward’s Mother, a spiritual woman,\u00a0 moved to\u00a0 Montana with her two young sons\u00a0 to be closer to a spiritual group she was connected with.\u00a0\u00a0 Eduardo and his brother with no father now to discipline them\u00a0 relished the freedom they had as they acted out with feisty purpose and gregariousness.\u00a0 This freedom was a gift and a sword not having their father with them for the male energy needed some direction.\u00a0 There was a buried emptiness that Eduardo carried with him and mostly hidden until he eventually confronts these issues years later after his accident that turned his life upside down and sideways.\u00a0 The tragedy that befell Eduardo was while he was hiking in\u00a0 the Montana back country when he saw a bear lying lifeless and he went to investigate. His zest for life and all that he was was challenged that day.\u00a0 The bear he found was laying on a fully charged\u00a0 electrical box and when Eduardo touched the bear he was also electrocuted with 2400 volts of electricity.\u00a0 He did not die that day as one would expect.\u00a0 Thus this documentary “Charged” opened with Eduardo in the hospital with life threatening injuries.\u00a0 This scene was not for the weak and even though you wanted to look away you were hit with this mega smile that seemed more than the volts of electricity that could have put him down.\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 Faced with incredible pain and injuries to his body, arms and muscles and a real whole in his head he smiled and not a weak smile.\u00a0 You became hooked on the mega smile and the man.\u00a0 Ordinarily you would be saddened for his fate but he seems to be a “teacher” of sort as he defies the lie he is down. His longtime friend and companion, Jennifer Jane, an English woman, was called to return to Montana as she did not know when she got there if she would find Eduardo alive or dead.\u00a0 She had her camera at the hospital and decided to document his hospital stay.\u00a0 Jen is also the subject of the story and is instrumental\u00a0 in the recovery of Eduardo.\u00a0 She was his rock and was that companion that gave with no expectations to Eduardo.\u00a0 Her love and support was freely given and this gave Eduardo that edge he needed to keep his own energy up.\u00a0 When you looked into his eyes you saw the depth of his fierceness was more than just stamina.\u00a0 The story documents Eduardo’s and Jen’s\u00a0 friendship and their connection.\u00a0\u00a0 The story weaves in and out showing Eduardo’s recovery and healing of his wombs with scars still prominent and some amputation of his arm and another\u00a0 serious illness discovered within him he had to endure and conquer. \u00a0 Eduardo documents these challenges with more grace than anyone I have seen.\u00a0 It only inspires one to not give in and to challenge your life and you will come out on the other side a better human being as you are not blinded by what you see but what you can achieve.<\/p>\n
The camera work and editing was quite good considering how they started out in a novice way to document his hospital stay as professionalism pulls it together.\u00a0 The pace of the documentary was also good.\u00a0\u00a0 Dennis Aig, one of the producers was also the producer of a multiple award winning documentary, Unbranded.\u00a0\u00a0 Ellin of Entourage was another producer.\u00a0 They did a great job putting all\u00a0 the pieces together\u00a0 and a lot to edit.<\/p>\n
I met both Eduardo Garcia and Jennifer Jane at a seminar behind the Lobero.\u00a0 Jane is both beautiful within and without and has moved on to do many things herself and that includes her own show as a stand-up comedian.\u00a0 Eduardo is amazing with\u00a0 piercing blue eyes and he does not let life pass him by and has many irons in the fire and if anyone can do it he can.\u00a0 He has something a lot of people do not have.\u00a0 Can I define it? Well, I am not sure but I feel he has something extra. You meet these people but cannot really define it.\u00a0 They are rare and few between.<\/p>\n
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Reviewed by: C. Zangi Angeli.\u00a0 Viewed at opening night at the Santa Barbara Film Festival at the Arlington, 2017. If you are in any way weak in spirit you will be stronger after watching this true story\/ documentary about the fierce and courageous Eduardo Garcia. This\u00a0 is a survival story. This is Eduardo Garcia’s survival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,3,290],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/135193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g9r.3b8.myftpupload.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}