"On 12 August 2022, as Salman Rushdie was about to launch into a lecture on the importance of protecting writers from harm at New York's Chautauqua Institution, a man in a black mask rushed the stage with a knife. To the horror of the packed amphitheater, the man stabbed the Indian-born British-American author once the subject of an infamous fatwa"
"from the leader of Iran in the 1980s 15 times in the face, neck and torso, before members of the audience rushed the stage and disarmed him. Rushdie survived, narrowly; the stabbing left him on a ventilator, severed tendons in his left hand, and cost him his right eye. A full recreation of that attack from Rushdie's perspective 27 seconds of struggle, the mysterious man's face, several sickening punches of blade opens a new documentary on Rushdie's recovery and resilience,"
"Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, directed by Alex Gibney and based on Rushdie's memoir of the same name, is unsparing on the devastating results of the stabbing: in never-before-seen footage recorded by the author's wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Rushdie appears gruesomely disfigured his skin discolored, his entire abdomen bisected by stitches, his swollen neck held together by stitches, his eye indescribably mangled. His first coherent thought after regaining consciousness, he recalls in the film, was simply: We need to document this."
On 12 August 2022 Salman Rushdie was attacked onstage at Chautauqua Institution and stabbed multiple times, sustaining life-changing injuries. The assault left him on a ventilator, with severed tendons in his left hand and the loss of his right eye. Never-before-seen footage recorded by his wife shows extensive disfigurement, surgical repairs, and ongoing care. A documentary directed by Alex Gibney, based on Rushdie's memoir, recreates the attack and follows his recovery, framing the recording as both a coping mechanism and an act of defiance against political violence. The documentary received a standing ovation at Sundance.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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