Autoimmune
Disease- A disease in which the body's immune system attacks healthy cells. (Google)
So, last
night, Joey and watched Brain on Fire
on Netflix. The title alone caught my
eye, the synopsis: “Stricken with seizures, psychosis, and memory loss, a young
New York Post reporter (Chloe Grace Moretz) visits doctor after doctor in
search of an elusive diagnosis.”
That
clenched it.
The opening
credits start to roll. “Based on actual events.”
We HAD to
find out what could’ve been so bad that this Susannah Calahan went through,
because we could think of some bad stuff we’d either seen or actually been
through.
Naaaaaaaaw
Man.
It starts at
her birthday party with fam and friends around when she inexplicably zones
out. It gets worse from there to the
point she sees things that aren’t there or happening. Then, she completely torpedoes a make or
break interview. Her folks, played by
Carrie Ann Moss and RRichard Armitage, her co-worker/friend, Margo (Jenny
Slate), her boyfriend, Stephen (Thomas Mann, and her editor (Tyler Perry) are
more than concerned. And, she goes
through a month of hell, slowly receding into herself, until Dr. Souhel Najjar
(Navid Negahban) takes her case to try to find out what’s happening before she’s
lost.
Of course,
Joey and I’m Niagara Falls, we’re so invested in this movie, but we couldn’t
imagine…she’d go from blinking out for a tick to grand mals in the blink of an
eye…AND, THIS CRAP IS A REAL PHENOMENA!
Rotten
Tomatoes essentially says it’s crap, but, when have we listened to that? You guys shouldn’t either. Check it, and, just…damn.
Be good to
each other.
-J-
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