Review of My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014) by Patrick B — 24 Mar 2016

An interesting story tells the story as it happens, having powerful in the moment scenes, it creates a great picture of how Lotje feels. Its subtle use of special effects are well done, the cinematography is good, of course you can't fault them from the amount of phone recordings that are not in frame or with proper audio.

I do have issues with it being a bit slow at times, while I was interested throughout the whole documentary, I believe it could have been a bit shorter. Another issue is that we don't see a lot of the perspective from other people than Lotje, only a few people ever say anything, and it's so minor that it feels odd it was even included at times, since they barely have anything to so.

That being said, I did like it, though it isn't hard to make a documentary I would enjoy, as long as the subject matter is interesting in the first place.