We caught up with the film’s director to hear about what audiences can learn about the life and trials of the former track star.
Oscar Pistorius’s rise to stardom as the poster boy of the Paralympics and his tragic downfall in theIt’s been seven years since the shooting occurred and six years since he was sentenced. All that time, Pistorius has been behind bars, serving a 13-year sentence that was handed down by a federal appeals court in South Africa.
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Then you look at London. For the first time, people paid to watch the Paralympics. It was more popular and engaged than the Olympics, and Oscar was a huge part of growing that movement. I spoke to [,] and when he told the story, I so wish it was in the film. He told the story of when they were on the starting line of the Paralympics and when Oscar’s name was called out in the stadium, when Oscar was introduced, the crowd yelled and he just thought,It’s a real spine-tingling moment.
Oscar said, at the time, that the blades had been around for 20-odd years and no one was posting those times. Clearly it wasn’t the blades because then everyone would’ve been running those times. It’s really impressive what Oscar, and others do, so then you start to wonder about what was the real motivation behind not letting Oscar compete.
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