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Explant

2021 · 85 min

A sobering, personal health documentary that follows one woman's search for answers and recovery, mixing medical frustration with quiet resolve.

Directed by: Jeremy Simmons
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Michelle Visage

Tagline: When less is actually more. Much more.
Overview: Over the past six decades, thousands of women across the globe have become sick with an amalgam of mysterious and severe autoimmune disease symptoms. The common denominator in many of their cases? Breast implants. One such woman is beloved singer and media personality, Michelle Visage (RuPaul’s Drag Race) who, here, allows the audience into her journey to find wellbeing via “explant” surgery to remove her implants. Along the way, she introduces us to other women, all experiencing similar but uniquely debilitating indicators that their implants are poisoning them.

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Directed by: Jeremy Simmons
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Michelle Visage

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: healing
trauma
identity
gender
science
Places: hospital
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	9
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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