This informative insight into the little-known disease that killed Robin Williams is affecting but bleak
The genius of Robin Williams is taken as a given by this intensely sad documentary, which pays fleeting tribute to the
Actor and comedian’s talent but focuses mainly on the undiagnosed neurodegenerative disease that led him to take his own life in 2014.
Lewy body dementia is a deadly and devastating condition, one that is little known and frequently misdiagnosed. And for someone like Williams, whose brilliance depended on the quickfire, sparking neural connections of his exceptional brain, the symptoms, which include fear, delusions and hallucinations, must have been particularly terrifying.