Extremis

The first scenes of the film were very intriguing to me to know what the perhaps of this film was. But after watching the intro of the film I decided to search up the definition of “extremis” in order to get a hint as to what this film will be about. The definition is a latin phrase for “in the farthest reaches” or “at the point of death.” Which then explained what this film will be showing. Watching the individuals stories were a bit confusing because the reason as to why they were on life support was unknown. The way the story was told was interesting because the film makers focused on the doctors talking about the decision keeping a patient on life support or not, this showed that the doctors are greatly affected by the decision. They are affected by not knowing when it is the right time to remove life support on a patient as well as not knowing whether the patient will be able to breath by themselves. Overall the film was eye opening to me because it gives me motive to talk to my loves ones about these decisions in advance to prevent my love ones to be stuck with this hard decision. It is an impacting film and well directed as well.