Frontline: My Father My Brother & Me

Frontline: My Father My Brother & Me
This is an amazing DVD on how to understand, cope and fight Parkinson's Disease (PD). I would recommend it to anyone who is struggling with PD or knows someone who is living with this disabling condition. It was both touching and hopeful at the same time.

Please let there be a cure five minutes ago!
When this first started, I was worried that the work would only speak about the things that most viewers already know about Parkinson's. However, in seeing how they speak about history, genetics, politics, cures, and mitigating factors, this work did seem well-rounded to me.

By showing Obama at the beginning of the work and not just focusing on Bush, the work tries to say, "Hey! We realize that the status quo on research this decade may change any second now." They later show Senator Boxer saying stem cell research was the first bill vetoed in six years of W's presidency. The work also shows how Michael J. Fox's commercial for a Democratic Missouri candidate may have helped her win an election. So the politics is still portrayed as crucial, rather than being "yesterday's news."

The work tries to be fair-minded as it showed a disabled man who still opposed stem cell research. I never liked "Family Ties" or Fox's whiny voice, but seeing him here makes me...



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