How Much Am I Worth?
2020 · 6m · USA
Directed by Rachel Handler, Catriona Rubenis-Stevens
Genres: documentary
Tones: contemplative, provocative
Four women with disabilities confront the expense and bureaucracy of getting care and equipment under the US healthcare system.
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Everyone expects disability docs to be inspirational or tragic—Handler and Rubenis-Stevens just let the system's absurdity speak for itself, which somehow lands harder than either option ever could.
A formally precise documentary that inherits the restraint of advocacy cinema at its best, letting financial testimony and bureaucratic detail accumulate into something genuinely unsettling without rhetorical flourish.
The decision to let the numbers and quotes sit unadorned—no manipulative score, no visual metaphors—transforms what could've been preaching into something that actually makes you feel the weight of each small indignity.