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‘Life After’ Review: An Empathetic and Confrontational Doc About Disabled People’s Right to Be in Control
Filmmaker Reid Davenport weaves a powerful first-person perspective with a journalistic investigation about disability justice.
The media covers it as a positive outcome: a community coming together to throw a big send-off party to a teenager whose life is deemed not worth living because of her disability. Davenport shows that this “choice” wasn’t really Kaliszan’s, but rather forced on him by a crumbling healthcare system and a government bureaucracy that prefers to kill its citizens rather than help them live with dignity. ”Life After” empathetically and methodically shows the fallacy of assisted suicide as a choice for disabled people, it’s instead a result of flailing healthcare, strapped-for-resources medical institutions and the failure of governments to protect their citizens.
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