under-our-skin

Well-researched investigative docu “Under Our Skin” examines schisms surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, a near-epidemic in the U.S. Like Michael Moore’s “Sicko,” it reveals a controversial connection between conventional protocols, private patents, managed care and insurance companies that restrict consumer choice with huge consequences for patient care. Producer-director-writer Andy Abrahams Wilson (“Bubbeh Lee and Me”) takes a creative, humanistic approach that makes the complex material dramatic and visually interesting. A natural for domestic cable, informative pic should have a long shelf life.

Mixing interviews and archival footage, pic creates a suspenseful dramatic arc by following six chronic Lyme-disease patients and a small group of “Lyme-literate” physicians as they struggle for their lives and livelihoods. Hard science and statistics are made memorably clear through clever animation. Instead of chapter headings, a chorus of artfully shot talking heads introduces topics such as symptoms, misdiagnoses and problems finding a doctor. Although it sides with those advocating unconventional treatments, pic gives gatekeepers from Infectious Diseases of America their say. Inclusion of pathologist Alan MacDonald’s recent discovery linking the Lyme infection to microbial biofilms signals new hope for chronic suffers.
It takes more than a subject that begs to be known to create a documentary worth spending time and money to see.

This documentary, UNDER OUR SKIN is a case in point. The subject is riveting but it can be presented in a myriad ways given our present state of technological vehicles for comunication. So why pick the documentary with all the seemingly requisite ingredients, that in this case does not bring to life the plight of human susceptibility to the ever growing incidence of Lyme disease.

There is a robotic nature to this film, making it somewhat less than enjoyable. The narrator’s voice is drone like, lulling the viewer into a quasi comatose state. The images of the afflicted people, the feature of this documentary appear inserted into the script without creativity, without regard to the artistry of documentary creation. This is a sorry state when the issue of Lyme disease, its failure to attract national attention, looms so large.

Perhaps the next go round for this important subject will produce more gripping results.

Genre:ocumentary
Releases:June 19, 2009
Director:Andy Abrahams Wilson
Distributor:Shadow Distribution
Synopsis
The numbers are frightening: according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 200,000 people may be infected with Lyme disease annually. Yet despite the fact that new cases of Lyme disease outnumber new cases of AIDS, West Nile Virus, and Avian Flu combined, that this frightening malady seems to go virtually ignored in the mainstream media. In this documentary, filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson speaks with six Lyme disease patients and the small but dedicated group of physicians who put their medical licenses on the lines in order to treat the disease that the Infections Diseases Society of America (an organization populated by many individuals who have troubling ties to the health insurance industry) claims is entirely treatable with antibiotics and, in may cases, psychosomatic. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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