Resistance (2015)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Michael Graziano
	Actors: -
	Country: USA, DK, CDN
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 07&18.05.2015, SD VOD, 11" computer screen
Synopsis: How have we squandered the miracle of the 20th century - antibiotics - by overusing them thus creating resistant bacterias.
Review: I didn't find this documentary to be groundbreaking in its form but it tackles an important topic, and does so by alternating exposition of facts and heart-breaking testimonies by victims of resistant bacterias, or their family. It is rather informative, but then I wonder why do we need Documentaries to teach us this kind of facts: regular news should do this job, as well as our government. I am not too much of a news-reader but I remember the catch-phrase used by the French advertisement on the topic (Les Antibiotiques c'est pas automatique), meaning that they reached their goal with me. On the opposite, Resistance comes to the sad but obvious conclusion that in the USA, the governmental organizations in care of health (namely the Food and Drug Administration - FDA) are completely powerless to do anything about the problem, and even worse they rely on data they buy from private companies that work for the Pharmaceutical Industry. No surprises there. And the feeble director of the FDA tries to explain in front of camera the difficulties he is facing and the steps to move forward, while in Europe the use of antibiotics for increase growth of cattle was banned ten years ago (twenty years in Denmark!). I am still glad to live in our Old Continent, as I concluded after watching that other Documentary Food Inc.
Rating: 5 /10