Come See Me in the Good Light

Builds to a genuine (and surprising) emotional kick thanks to Gibson and Falley’s emotional openness and intimacy, even pushing past my personal objections to the inherent manipulativeness of the filming of moments of high emotion, which are either staged or not, and both options have a significant “ick” factor attached to them. But what White and his “stars” are exploring here is the central relationship, and how its strength is successfully tested by Gibson’s effective death sentence; there’s a gripping, genuine poignancy to the crafting of their love story, and the highs and lows of the treatment of Gibson’s illness, without ever straying into suffer porn. Just lovely work.