A documentary "Unrest" of "chronic fatigue syndrome" that is difficult to walk and talk suddenly on one day but is likely to be misunderstood as "idleness"

It shows long-term fatigue and symptoms such as low fever, muscle weakness, thoughtfulness and sleep disorderChronic fatigue syndromeIt is a serious disease that is difficult to walk or talk in practice, although it is prone to be neglected because its name is similar to chronic fatigue. Jennifer Brea, who says, "I felt I had to keep watching the world continue to move though I died," one of the patients said, "understanding chronic fatigue syndrome to people From the fact that I noticed that I need a visual image to receive "documentary"Unrest"By just watching the trailer, you can see how much this disease destroys people's lives.

Unrest_Trailer on Vimeo


"Since I was a child, I felt that I wanted to swallow the whole thing and I thought that everything would be possible," Jennifer Brea took a doctorate from Harvard University and then at Political Science University at Princeton University A woman who was learning.


Married……


It was a constant woman with a smile.


"I thought that I had more time left."


The screen switches, "I do not know what I did, but I do not feel like getting up from the couch," Brea said.


Crawl slowly through the stairs ......


Move the camera to resist nausea.


Sometimes even speaking is difficult.


However, even if you inform your doctor about your condition, it is said to be "just dehydration symptoms". The chronic fatigue syndrome has few cases and it is difficult for the doctor to diagnose, "It is said that it can not be helped if it lightly overturns the symptoms, and it is diagnosed as" mental disorder "if it is overdoing too much .


Brea became a chronic fatigue syndrome after being suddenly attacked by a sudden high fever one day. Since then, Mr. Brea has become bedridden living. One of symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome is a decrease in muscular strength.


When searching the Internet, there were thousands of people who complain about the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome other than Brea.


Around 60 to 70% of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome are said to be females, and in the past some people complained of similar symptoms but until recent years, "diseases such as polio", "fatigue virus" " Hysteria "has been misunderstood as another disease.


"I do not want to go to work because I am tired," a comedian. Although it is a misunderstanding and often disregarded disease ... ...


On the other hand, scary screams from the wheelchair Brea 's picture that collapses is swept away.


Brea who returns "I understand" to her husband who said "This will also be the past".


The laughter of the commentator of the television program echoes "Chronic fatigue syndrome? I am tired today too!"


Stanford UniversityYaOsaka City UniversityStudies of living environment cause stress and inflammationproteinAlthough it is thought that it is related to the cause, the cause of this disease has not been identified as of 2017 and effective treatment does not exist.


However, Mr. Brea seems to continue experimental treatment, and a man who is a husband touches something such as "It looks like an experimental tool with high school science".


The figure of Brea who drinks something like an energy drink.


Go with a camper now ... ...


It also reflected the appearance of recovering until traveling.



When I decide to start making movies, I will interact with patients all over the world.







And Brea meets the community "missing" of people who have lost their living functions because of chronic fatigue syndrome.


Various pictures are pasted on the missing event ......


For shoes arranged on the ground, it is written about what you lost such as "I lost the pleasure of dancing".


Shoes that are lined up. These shoes are symbolic of "lost" by chronic fatigue syndrome.


Brea, who told me that I felt like I had to keep watching the world continue to move though I had died, "but" Life has gone away. " The trailer has been closed with the word that I got a new life.








Brea is a cloud-funding platformKickstarterI made movies by gathering 161,654 dollars (about 18 million yen), and have sent Unrest to the Sundance Film Festival.The VergeAccording to the interview, originally Brea began taking a movie not for making a movie but from the experience that "doctors have come to be able to get in touch with each other for the first time showing their state taken with a movie" was. According to Brea, a doctor who did not pay attention to explain with words that "I fell off the bed and could not move for hours even though I fell down from the bed, crawling on the floor, Brea When I looked at the movie that showed, I heard that he changed the tone of voice. From this experience, he noticed, "It is necessary to show a visual image to understand the chronic fatigue syndrome," Brea seems to have started film making by recruiting investment.

The trailer has become a way to see hope, but ending was very difficult, Brea says. A movie usually draws an arc shape that gradually converges from excitement to end, but real diseases do not converge and better or worse repeats like a circle. Brea says that "The story of chronic fatigue syndrome inevitably draws a circle", not when it is better to look good, but "it is temporarily getting better" I am talking.

In addition, Unrest has been open to the public from September 22, 2017 in the United States, and publication in Japan is undecided at the time of article creation.