Life Overtakes Me (2019)

  I didn't remember that this was nominated for an Oscar.  I didn't even remember to post it.  It was supposed to go up last week.  That's less due to it being boring or uninteresting than how much of a slog Les Misérables was to watch.  This is only about 20 minutes so it is comparably a breeze.

Did you guys know there's a condition called Resignment Syndrome?  Kids in Sweden, almost exclusively children of refugees, have been falling into comas.  Essentially, their lives are so filled with uncertainty, their little bodies just shut down.  The doc follows three different, formerly healthy children and their families to show the impact this has had.

It seems so fake but Sweden is noting hundreds of cases, way more than could be explained by people trying to game the system.  Not to mention the amount of time and effort it would take to fake it.  These kids are on feeding tubes, they have to have daily physical therapy to prevent muscle atrophy, they're missing over a year of their lives.  There are people monstrous enough to poison a child to try and garner sympathy but not hundreds in one place.  But as the refugee crisis worsens, experts and doctors fear even larger waves of Resignment Syndrome breaking out.

This is streaming on Netflix and it is a trip.