Sick -- The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist DVD Review Sick - The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist DVD Review Reviewed by Chris Holt on Nov 2 Rating: 3.5 Rewarding....if you can get through it A touching and disturbing tribute of a true one off Kirby Dick's documentary; Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist from 1997 is getting a re-release due to the fact that 3 particular minutes of somewhat disturbing footage have been added back into the film after being cut by the BBFC upon the film's original release in 2001. Sadly the missing footage doesn't add anything, it's just 3 minutes of some of the most unpleasant behaviour ever captured on film outside of a Jackass movie. Now that comparison is where the humour stops because this film is one of the most unpleasant yet moving documentaries ever made even though it feels oddly unfinished. For those of you who don't know, Bob Flanagan was a stand-up comedian, performance artist and poet who was born with Cystic Fibrosis and given a prognosis of not living beyond his early twenties. Around his teens Flanagan found an interest in sadomasochistic practices and humiliation, in the early 80s he was lucky enough (depending on how you swing) to find Sheree Rose as a partner whose slave he became. Maybe because of his viewpoint and what he preferred to get up to in the bedroom, Flanagan became a minor celebrity and even appeared in an