It's funny how this only seems to effect crazy white ladies
The Pain of Others
2018
Action / Documentary
The Pain of Others
2018
Action / Documentary
Plot summary
The Pain of Others is a found footage documentary about Morgellons, a mysterious illness whose sufferers say they have parasites under the skin, long colored fibers emerging from lesions, and a host of other bizarre symptoms which could be borrowed from a horror film. The Pain of Others is composed entirely of videos shared by a group of "Morgies" who have turned to YouTube for community and to prove they're not crazy. Unsettling, funny and intimate, The Pain of Others is at once a body-horror documentary and a radical act of empathy.
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1280*952
English 2.0
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About more than the disease
Extremely compelling documentary compiled almost entirely from YouTube clips, edited together with a deliberate skill and creating a narrative of Morgellons Disease in emotional terms, at first eliciting sympathy for these suffering women and then taking the viewer through the compulsive self-examination that begins to take place because of the disease, which eventually takes several paths, including conspiratorial ones. But the film is just as concerned with the modern network of communication forged by the sufferers of the disease, chronicling the feedback loop that escalates the emotional suffering through informational validation and examining the internet as one that divides people into their own private realities