You See Me

There was a part of me that expected the sort of sugar coating that comes naturally with reflecting on someone who has passed. Death tends to rub dull all the little hurts.

You See Me brings to light some of the darker and more painful sides of family in the hopes of healing old wounds. It takes the viewer through the critical months of an ailing father and explores the relationships between him and his wife, daughters, son, and parents.

Filmmaker Linda Brown takes the audience along on her personal journey of understanding her family and her father through the medium she knows best. The film explores the difficulties of an abusive father relationship and the family feelings about the past and present as the man known as father and husband nears the end of his life.

You See Me takes you on a journey of life, family, and vulnerability that exposes what so many families have experienced and yet has the courage to share it and expose it. The vulnerability and courage of the filmmaker to bring us into her world is raw, inspiring, and will make you see your own childhood in a new light, if you have the courage to face it , as she did.

Do we really know what happens to stroke survivors once they leave our hospitals, medical offices, Home- health agencies? This film affirms all families emotional commonality of desperation, frustration, and even joy when caring for a person healing from stroke.

There's a moment early on in Linda Brown's fascinating film, YOU SEE ME, of old footage being shown of her and her sister dressed up as husband and wife when they were kids. The two of them are performing for the camera, ultimately portraying their parents hug, dance, kiss, and fight.

This film was a thought provoking, emotional story of a real family. Going from laughter to tears throughout the film mimics my real life for the past year, as my mother declines.

I usually get bored during movies and need to get up and move around. For this movie I could not move and I noticed no one moved in the audience either.

I loved this film. Coming from a family who kept so many family secrets, I know full well their destructive power.