The Pain of Others

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