Life Overtakes Me (2019)

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Nilsmedskills
The directors never mention that Sweden is the only country in the world where this phenomenon exists and that all children gets magically healthy within hours if you get them away from their parents....? 4 years 2 months ago
Nestorn
According to an investigation by the Swedish magazine Filter, the documentary is based on a hoax. According to witnesses cited by Filter, the main character in the film, a small child, had been pressured by her parents to simulate the resignation syndrome for the express purpose of improving the family's prospects for permanent residence status in Sweden. The witnesses insisted that the girl had in fact been a well-functioning, normal child, who was coached into faking her illness when doctors and officials were present.

After Filter's report, Sweden's public television network, SVT, launched its own investigation into the case. The witnesses repeated what they had told Filter about the case being a hoax. SVT also cited Swedish pediatrician Karl Sallin as saying that the filmmakers had cherry-picked phrases from interviews with him in a "reckless and dangerous" fashion, distorting his view of the situation. 4 years 2 months ago