Movie Analysis: Dying To Be Thin

The film “Dying to be Thin” followed the cases of several individuals who have struggled with an eating disorder at some point in their lives, showing the different factors that play a role in eating disorder onset. Different individuals in the film have different reasons for developing an eating disorder but there are some over-arching themes such as the media’s influence, career-related pressures, and certain personality types.

The documentary Thin, followed the lives of four different women, as they struggled to rehabilitate from their eating disorders. The documentary followed these women as they were short-term residents at an impatient treatment facility in Florida that specialized in helping those with severe eating disorders. One participant, Shelly was admitted into the facility after complications relating to her excessively low body weight of 82lbs. She restricted her food intake to the extent that she required administration of a feeding tube to absorb nutrition. However, it was revealed during the documentary that she had been using her feeding tube to purge food.

How do you choose between the love of your best friend, and their safety? In Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher, Eric Calhoune, a high school student, must decide how to help his best friend Sarah Byrnes, who was badly burned by her father when she was a toddler. When Sarah Byrnes stops talking to get away from her dad who was never caught for hurting her, Eric decides that he must find a way to keep Sarah’s dad permanently away from her. Eric makes hard decisions in order to help Sarah and himself such as telling his coach about her burns, telling Sarah’s father where Sarah went, and also keeping Sarah from running away to a special school in Colorado.

It was an eye opener learning about this issue she has and been struggling since she was a teen ager. She mentioned something about looking for a psychologist because of her challenges. The hope is to be able to get some professional help in helping curb her disorder so she could live a normal life. My coworker talked about how she would call different psychologist but always got the same answer that they didn’t work with people how have eating disorders, which angered me because of thinking they could have helped or referred her to someone who could help her.

I have always found eating disorders to be an interesting population that I have wanted to work with in the field. The negative body image and thoughts that people have of themselves is something I have wanted to look further into as to why this population think the way that they do. I have learned a great deal just by watching the videos and reading articles that pertain to eating disorders.

Hope was here and Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes are both very different books. With their compelling plots and twists and turns on every page, these books are bound to be different from each other. When you first start to read the two books you wouldn’t think for one second they had anything in common, or at least that’s how I felt. Nevertheless I kept reading hoping I could find a similarity between the two. It wasn’t easy, but as soon as a I read that last chapter of Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes I found harmony in both books that at first seemed so different but yet so alike in the end.

After viewing the video “Dying to be Thin” and reading the articles on eating disorders, I felt as though my knowledge was broadened on this topic. Because I plan to work with adolescents, this awareness is crucial to my future career. Some of the statistics that the video shared were alarming; 8 million people suffer from eating disorders, with majority being women. The video shared that 80% of women are unhappy or not satisfied with their body. Eating disorders also hold the highest death rate of any psychiatric illness, with anorexia nervosa being the deadliest. The video also gave me insight as to what professional athletes and dancers experience, as well as valuable feedback from survivors.

Dying to Be Thin is an exceptional film that focuses on the prevalence of eating disorders in different settings. This film consists of interviews with students, ballet dancers, fashion models, and other young women who are in the process of recovery. Dying to Be Thin digs deep into the minds of women who suffer with Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa to show how distorted their thinking can become.

Death is always prominent in everyday life. “A Lesson Before Dying” is a film about Jefferson, a black person who was accused of murder. During the trial, Jefferson’s attorney compares him to a hog. Jefferson takes this literally and his godmother, Miss Emma, wants him to die as a man. “If We Must Die” is a poem about dying nobly and with bravery. “A Lesson Before Dying” and “If We Must Die” are two stories based around death. Both share extremely similar messages.

To the Bone, does a good job in showing what anorexia nervosa is. In part that is because it was “created by and with individuals who have struggled with eating disorders” (Miller, Curtis, & Lynn, 2017). These people know what it is like to live with an eating disorder, which helps make it a reliable movie since it is not being made up. However, it did not show a few of the signs and symptoms of anorexia, such as: “engaging in ritualistic eating patterns, continued fixation with food, recipes, or cooking; the individual may cook intricate meals for others, but refrain from partaking” (Ekern, 2018), or self-induced vomiting to get rid of any food that she has eaten. During the film, she does not engage in ritualistic patterns such as hiding food or eating when she is alone. Also, when she does eat, she never tries to get rid of the food by self-induced vomiting, she just exercises excessively. Whenever she’s going to eat, she is sitting at the dining table, but she never hides it, she just leaves it on the plate if she’s not going to eat something. Although it doesn’t show those signs and symptoms, it does show most of them.

Juicing has been praised as a practice capable of helping with weight-loss and serving as a first step towards a healthier lifestyle many have yet to try, but while many claims center on the short-term changes caused by the juice fast, fewer take note of the long-term effects. To determine whether such a diet would help college students, one must first look to its results, define what a juice fast is, and its facts; including what it provides, lacks, and possible alternatives.

I thought that this movie was very interesting. I think that taking a look at how other countries governments and understand what works and what doesn't work and how to maybe apply that to our country. One of the things that I thought was the most interesting was the whole idea of the school lunches in France and how it compares to the us. In America many people and groups have tired to get school lunches to be healthier and more nutritious but it just doesn't add up to what France is doing. I think that the fact that they have meetings about what the kids eat everyday is something that is very important and something that we need to adapt here in America. The way that kids eat in France at school and all over Europe is something that i feel we need to take into consideration. Kids in America constantly eat junk food and are over weight and if we do start making lunches like the schools in France then maybe the kids in schools can be a little healthier.

The movie Dead Man Walking is based on a true story about an inmate on death row who was spiritually advised by Sister Helen. Sister Helen had never been a spiritual advisor and got caught up in this without knowing what she was doing, but she was there for Matthew nonetheless. Adhering to the CST themes of Solidarity and Life and Dignity of the Human Person, Sister Helen helps both Matthew to keep his human dignity and the families of the victims to feel better and accept their losses.

Again, this is an area that would benefit from talking more with the patient to determine if she has been influenced by sociocultural forces. Also, criticism from peers and from family about weight has been shown to increase the prevalence of an eating disorder. From the interview, we do not know anything about the patient’s family or friends, or their reactions to the individual’s struggle. It would be extremely insightful, especially since studies have shown that those who report suffering from an eating disorder report high levels of conflict in their family. I am curious as to the patient’s home life and if this played a factor in her

In my opinion, it is a good essay it discusses the widespread phenomenon it's "the globalization of eating disorders". This essay includes talk about slim body mania and I think there are three kinds of people have that mania. The first kind they are really obsessed, the second they are with a normal body. These two types are seeking to reduce their weight, and the last type they are so thin and they seeking weight gain, and all of them are looking for beauty. About me, I have a normal body and I work to preserve it, its mean an organized body and healthy because that make me live a life free from disease and health crises and make me feel good about my appearance. Beauty is the attribute of good and adornment, which notes the things, which