daniel day lewis do a remarkable job of play christy brown and the artist who grow up with cerebral palsy but manage to have a productive life and deal successfully with his handicap and become a respected artist and writer . the film and however and be a very difficult one to review or even watch . fortunately and i have the caption feature on to catch every spoken word which would have be impossible if i saw the film in a theater . while i respect it a a brave piece of work deal with difficult subject matter and i can not say it the sort of film i would want to view more than once . nevertheless and my attention be hold by the story tell device and a flashback frame by the present and in which we see christy be honor for his achievement before we see the flashback to his youth and his struggle to communicate with those around him and who certainly give him love care . daniel day lewis certainly be remarkable a the troubled man who fall in love with a therapist ( fiona shaw ) and much to his mother fear that when the love be not reciprocate his heart will be break . there a painfully long scene in a restaurant where he confess his love to her before others and then go into a frenzied rage after drink too much . brenda fricker do a brilliant job a the mother take care of him and his father and a brood of sibling while struggle to keep a roof over their head until day lewis begin to have success with his work . she complement day lewis performance a the warm hearted mother and share many poignant moment with him . richly detailed story of a family that stay together under the most unusual of circumstance with attention to period detail in every frame of the film . both fricker and day lewis win oscar and but hugh oconor and ray mcanally be also excellent . oconor be christy a a boy and mcanally be the father who spend too much time at the local pub but love the boy . sum up represent elmer bernstein music be an added plus factor . well worthwhile and but definitely not a film for everyone .