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Unrest (2017)
Disappearing in a wrong story
What does it feel like, when the whole world as you know it, slowly disappears, because of a devastating illness? What if you change from a promising PHD-Student into someone who cannot brush their own teeth anymore?
And what if not only the world disappears, as you can't take part on life anymore, but you as a person disappear as well, as you are not seen and not heard anymore.
It is devastating.
And most of all it is devastating, because people with ME are disappearing in a story that is not true. So many myths, wrong stories and non-scientific believes have been communicated by medical Dr.´s and media in the last decades, that they started to believe them theirselves. And where science has proved ME to be a physical disease over and over and over again, still the story is told that ME is a psychological phenomenon, in which people are sick because they think they are sick.
In this way millions of people are belittled, harassed, neglected and humiliated. Millions of very ill people are treated this way, as most don't have the ability to stand up for themselves. ME its the last taboo of modern history. And this taboo must be broken.
And this is what Jennifer Brea in ´Unrest´ does. She stands up for all those Millions Missing. She stands up against one of the cruelest stories of our time. And she does this in an overwhelming, emphatic and loving way.
This is a story that must be told. But even more: this is a story that must change.
Dying of severe disease is not the worst thing that can happen, disappearing in a wrong story is the thing that is really killing you.
Watch this film, understand what this film is about and than go out of your house and look around.