Resistance

The documentary explains how resistance to antibiotics came about and why it is counted a global problem. According to the film, the widespread use of these medicines and of everyday products has led to the spread of bacteria they no longer affect; today some infections cannot be treated with what is available. The account speaks with doctors, with researchers and with the families of patients, and looks at the medical side and the agricultural side alike. Resistance is a matter institutions have warned about for a long time; what the film adds is telling it through individual cases. Rather than frightening, the account asks why a problem of this kind has been taken up so slowly. Michael Graziano’s seventy two minute American documentary was completed in 2015.