Naomi Watts on the Heartbreaking Moments in Her New Film Penguin Bloom
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Photographer Cameron Bloom has captured some special moments in his family s life. In fact several of them are featured in the book, Penguin the Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family. That s because Penguin, who became a member of the Bloom family in 2014, saved his wife s life.
Cameron and his wife, Sam, were vacationing in Thailand in 2013 when Sam fell off of a roof and nearly died. She was left broken both in body and spirit. Partially paralyzed, Sam spent months in a near state of depression, dwelling on everything she couldn t do. In a candid Time piece, she revealed that that included being a wife and a mother. But when one of her sons brought home an injured magpie and she started to care for the bird, she began to take better care of herself as well. Her story of recovery is told in the feature film Penguin Bloom on Netflix.
There is an incredible true story behind Penguin Bloom, which arrives on Netflix this week.
Hollywood actress Naomi Watts stars as Samantha, a woman whose life is turned upside down when she suffers paralysis after an accident.
Read on to find out more about the remarkable real-life events that inspired the movie.
Hollywood actress Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom in the film (Credit: SplashNews.com)
What is the true story behind Penguin Bloom?
Samantha Bloom was on holiday in Thailand with her husband, Cameron, and their children in 2013 when her life changed forever.
While there, she was enjoying the view from a seemingly safe balcony and leaning against the rail when it broke, causing her to fall six metres.
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No penguins appear in Netflix’s new weepie
Penguin Bloom, and a cynical person might assume that such a misleading title must have been generated by the company’s fabled algorithm (with
Bloom thrown in to remind older viewers of
Bloom County and its beloved penguin character, Opus). In truth, the film was adapted from an Australian memoir of the same name, though the book’s U.S. publisher initially chose to market it more straightforwardly as
Penguin The Magpie: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved A Family. Written by photographer Cameron Bloom (with Bradley Trevor Greive), and itself inspired by his family’s popular Instagram account, this bestseller chronicles the harrowing-to-heartwarming period immediately after his wife, Sam, suffered a spinal-cord injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down. Depressed and despondent, feeling utterly useless, Sam had trouble mentally much more than physically just getting out of bed in the morning… until one of