Tone deaf and pointless documentary following the story of ultra-wealthy family in Thailand who cannot grieve properly for their toddler daughter stricken with an incurable brain cancer.
Rather than let her go peacefully, they subject her to ten surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation. When she finally expires, they spend $80,000 to freeze her brain and store it in Arizona, where it presumably reposes to this day. The family is shown making a trip to Arizona and weeping at their daughter's storage tank. Though the film makers at least include a scene towards the end where a cryotechnician admits that the brain tissues have basically been destroyed by the process and that there is essentially no chance of revivification, the morality of the cryo scheme is not examined.
This family displays profound narcissism, gullibility, wishful thinking, and "complicated grief" which would have been best addressed by copious therapy.
Though it could have been poignant and thought provoking, this documentary unfortunately lacks the insight that could have made it resonate.
Rather than let her go peacefully, they subject her to ten surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation. When she finally expires, they spend $80,000 to freeze her brain and store it in Arizona, where it presumably reposes to this day. The family is shown making a trip to Arizona and weeping at their daughter's storage tank. Though the film makers at least include a scene towards the end where a cryotechnician admits that the brain tissues have basically been destroyed by the process and that there is essentially no chance of revivification, the morality of the cryo scheme is not examined.
This family displays profound narcissism, gullibility, wishful thinking, and "complicated grief" which would have been best addressed by copious therapy.
Though it could have been poignant and thought provoking, this documentary unfortunately lacks the insight that could have made it resonate.