Catching Up with Pat Brogan of "Twisted"
How many of us would allow a camera to document our daily life as we grappled with a painful, disabling disorder—especially one that inspires an overwhelming urge to withdraw from other people? If a neurosurgeon sat you down and explained that your only apparent hope for a more normal life was to implant electrodes into your brain and a battery the size of a hockey puck in your chest, how many of us would invite an audience to watch as we figured out what on earth do to?
"Twisted" tells Pat's story as he considers and undergoes DBS surgery. Photo by Sherry Moore.
Viewers of the dystonia documentary Twisted were allowed an intimate look into the life of Pat Brogan as he considered, underwent, and struggled to recover from deep brain stimulation surgery. By the end of the film, the audience is left suspended between hope and apprehension—hope that Pat will achieve the dramatic benefit experienced by others in the film and apprehension that the road ahead of him toward this benefit remained long and arduous.
“Twisted shows me naked to the world, in a way, but it’s for a good purpose. It was hard to watch my life so damaged and crumbling like that,” he said. “The main goal I hope the film accomplishes is to help raise money for research.”
“Twisted shows me naked to the world, in a way, but it’s for a good purpose. It was hard to watch my life so damaged and crumbling like that,” he said. “The main goal I hope the film accomplishes is to help raise money for research.”
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