Review: The Man Whose Arms Exploded
- Article 10 of 13
- Off the Telly, September 2006
You pretty much know what you're going to get when you watch a documentary on five entitled The Man Whose Arms Exploded. It might have been shown as part of the Hidden Lives strand, but it would have been equally at home in Channel 4's Bodyshock range, where the name of the game is medical grossness crossed with faux human interest.
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Unfortunately for them, if there was one true message the programme gave us, it was that no matter how clever and sophisticated you might make a documentary, it's hard to forge a lasting argument when your centrepiece is an extended clip of a man siphoning pus from his own arm into a tumbler.
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