[The double life of a cardiologist. Sudden death at the cinema]

Cinema and medicine repair biographies and wounds by raising plots, naming things, seeking a solution even to the most unthinkable enigma. Even before entering a movie theater, we should sign a consent form: are we ready to be paralyzed for two hours, without curare, to cure?If we're prepared to remain quadriplegic for hours in a theater, why shouldn't we listen and watch the patient in front of us? After all, he brings us symptoms and signs, a script that leaves the movie's direction up to us. No matter if it's crude. When the dance of life turns tragic, the doctor must act with the apparent playfulness of an actor, without ever losing focus and a steady hand. Like literature, cinema is a medicine that helps us to enter into other's lives, especially if they are suffering.