Ben Stokes Documentary On Prime TV

Excellent, excellent, excellent ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Beautiful from a cinematic point of view but the content was visceral.

His mental health breakdown really hit home with me having gone through the same thing earlier this year.

The loss of his wonderful father also hit home, it’s 19 years next week since I lost my own dad, the biggest influence on my life.

On Thursday I had a hospital appointment in Edgbaston at The Priory and set my sat nav seeing as I had moved house since my last visit to that area.

It took me in from a different direction and I suddenly saw signs for the QE Hospital.

I suddenly found myself with tears in my eyes, the remembrance of my dad having his quadruple heart bypass there in June 2003, he survived it but died from a related issue three months later unexpectedly.

Me and him had the most important moment of my life just before he went in for the operation, words that meant everything to the two of us.

This documentary is real, it’s a portrait of life and I utterly related to it.

A compelling hour and 45 minutes whether you love cricket or hate it......it’s the human side that works so well.

Documentary of the year or indeed many a year for me.

Nice find Mick, I will have to give it a watch.

An amazing sportsman and to deal with mental health is so difficult, but to be able to perform as he has is remarkable.

Thanks for sharing 👍

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Originally Posted by mickd1961

Excellent, excellent, excellent ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Documentary of the year or indeed many a year for me.

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Not seen this nor do I plan to purely because I’m not a fan of cricket, but accept this is a great watch.

Slightly off topic - Give the the Bryan Robson story a go, it’s on Amazon Prime too. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this especially as they cover a fair amount of WBA. I initially thought it’ll be all Man U, but no. A great insight into his life and career.

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Originally Posted by regis80

Not seen this nor do I plan to purely because I’m not a fan of cricket, but accept this is a great watch.

Slightly off topic - Give the the Bryan Robson story a go, it’s on Amazon Prime too. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this especially as they cover a fair amount of WBA. I initially thought it’ll be all Man U, but no. A great insight into his life and career.

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Not liking cricket is irrelevant in my opinion Regis, it’s much more about other things than cricket.

I don’t like basketball but really enjoyed the Michael Jordan documentary.

You’d probably enjoy it.

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Originally Posted by regis80

Not seen this nor do I plan to purely because I’m not a fan of cricket, but accept this is a great watch.

Slightly off topic - Give the the Bryan Robson story a go, it’s on Amazon Prime too. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this especially as they cover a fair amount of WBA. I initially thought it’ll be all Man U, but no. A great insight into his life and career.

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Agreed the Robbo one is excellent.

I'm not a big cricket fan as well but a documentary can be excellent whatever it is about and I have ended up watching them on Australian rules football ffs and enjoyed them.

The Shane Warne, Maradona and Senna ones are great as is the Busby one. I don't give a to ss about any of them, but, the insight they give is brilliant and you discover stuff you never knew, like Busby kept on going to the training ground after he resigned and was eventually asked to stop by the livafool hierarchy.

I have heard some excellent reviews of the Stokes doc so will watch it when I have a chance.

You mean Shankley not Busby BB.

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Originally Posted by mickd1961

You mean Shankley not Busby BB.

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That's right, my mistake.

I love documentaries
Robbo, Shankley one and the three kings one is great, Warney one was outstanding, and I love to hear about what made these guys winners

Having had a lot of problems n issues in my life eg 10+ miscarriages, general family, money , life issues, unfairness, racism etc i get that life’s hard

But I don’t really need to hear whiny *******s, we all have issues n hard lives, I’m sure the likes of Stokes don’t have it too much harder than the average bloke

What I’m interested in is how they overcame it, n what makes these people different

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Originally Posted by BaggieSingh

I love documentaries
Robbo, Shankley one and the three kings one is great, Warney one was outstanding, and I love to hear about what made these guys winners

Having had a lot of problems n issues in my life eg 10+ miscarriages, general family, money , life issues, unfairness, racism etc i get that life’s hard

But I don’t really need to hear whiny *******s, we all have issues n hard lives, I’m sure the likes of Stokes don’t have it too much harder than the average bloke

What I’m interested in is how they overcame it, n what makes these people different

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There was zero whining from Stokes BS.

Sam Mendes had to literally drag stuff out of him.

If you look at Stokes during the one on one interview you see a bloke in a very dark place.

Add to the mix the background piece that came up about his mum’s former partner murdering their two small children three years before Ben was born.

This isn’t one of those “OMG” self pity pieces like Schofield’s “gay secret stress” type thing or how Katy Price is having a bad fingernail day and her world has turned to s h I t.......this is visceral.

Reading the papers at the weekend respected journalists in sport and in general were blown away at just how searing this documentary is.

I concur with them.

It's nice to watch these show's for entertainment, that's what they are there for but don't hook up your life with their own.
Many people suffer from depression and many like cricket, I'm not sure if the two are related. But sort your own life out and don't worry about what Ben Stokes is doing, I am sure it will work out fine for him.

Who is he anyway?