My super honest and petty review on Netflix's 2017 Movie about eating disorders "To the Bone" featuring Lily Collins and Keanu Reeves. My Website: amfgvideos.weebly.com/
I remember critics LOVED this movie. Meanwhile, I think the worst sin of this movie is that it’s just so fucking boring. I have never once watched this movie all the way through because it just felt like watching paint dry
SAME. Other ED Films like Starving in Suburbia also sucked but at least they were entertaining to watch and had good pacing 😂😂 A lot of Disorder movies are in the "so bad it's good" category, but To the Bone was so bland.
@@amfgvideos2517 it's weird that you complain about how bad the place was but other people with ED claim it was much more fun than real in patient, in real life it wouldn't be any group therapy, any private therapy and no summer camp fun
I liked that you talked about the stereotypes. All the black women characters being fat, the only obese character with the binge ed also being a black girl, only the white characters were anorexic, there were also no fat white characters. The tropes are soooo overdone. Statistically anorexia affects all races the same. So in a clinic, you'll see people from all kinds of backgrounds, not just 16yr old white girls.
as someone’s who’s been in inpatient treatment for anorexia, this is wildly unrealistic. we were monitored 24/7. there was no opportunity to purge or exercise, you were never by ourself with nurses checking on you every hour. ellen’s discharge is also so unrealistic. you have to meet your target weight otherwise it’s a no. completely non negotiable. haven’t watched this movie but i know enough about it. thanks for the analysis, i think you called out some things that need to be talked about.
@@leafymushroom9384 oh my goodness, I know. I get that it “doesn’t glamourise anorexia” or whatever but it just doesn’t make sense. Netflix needs to leave mental illness alone up less they involve someone of that community deeply in the screenwriting process
I’ve had treatment experiences fairly similar to the house in the film actually (but the staff were more accountable) they were offered to people that were treatment resistant and had been unwell for many years or decades. We’d already been through conventional treatment more times than I can count, tried every therapy and medication going. Our families had burnt themselves out years ago and many of the patients stood a chance of never recovering. It was just about trying to increase our quality of life in the moment, trying to show people that there was more to their life than their illness
This film was so tone deaf despite trying to be woke. Obviously it's unrealistic to make the characters all magically get better by the end but notice how they ALL GOT WORSE? But Netflix portrays it like it was for the better? Between mia hiding her purge bags, Megans miscarriage (for what the therapist NEVER GAVE HER THERAPY FOR), Luke permanently injuring himself and other side characters never getting over their food addictions. The whole house was scamming them of their time and money. The only time Ellen starts to recover a bit is when she gets away from the recovery center at the end. ARE THEY SELF AWARE OR NOT?
tbh i don’t even think it was trying to be woke. it had a lot of forced insensitive jokes like “calorie aspergers” and the emma stone comment like jeez
@@theinvisiblegirl2501 Thats the joke. Emma obviously isnt "fat". Thats why its funny. It suppose to be a "out of water" type joke, like "its crazy that people can see that this way". Doubleing down with "shes atleast a size 6" is hammering it in. Most people would find that crazy. Plus, the actor in the scene saying it is no thinner than Emma.
@@spoons250 yeah, we get the joke. It just wasn’t funny. Imagine making a high budget movie and actively talking about another person’s weight on there like- regardless of the “intent” it was tasteless and unfunny. idk who “most people” is since most people actually found it unfunny.
You know I worry about Lily, after this movie she never did gain the weight back. And since Emily in Paris S2 she looks sickly thin again. The script in that show has a lot of subtle jabs towards not eating and being "thin & chic like French women"
Apparently according to some of the interviews she did for To The Bone, Lily struggled with anorexia and bulimia so maybe losing weight for the film triggered a relapse
thank god when I watched it the first time I noticed all the poc were binge eaters and joke characters… it made me feel really weird and I typically don’t care about things like that but it was so obvious 😭 so glad someone finally stopped pretending to like this damn movie 👏
so yeah it was so fucking weird like why did the writers add in the r slur, why did they do the poc women based on harmful stereotypes, why did they have to do it all just so we felt like we needed to pity a fucking prierleged white girl. this film makes me rage ah
This was an old review I made years ago and thought I lost. Let me know if you guys like this sort of commentary videos or are interested in more? The audio is so bad because I recorded it on my laptop, hopefully I can find something better. Looking back 5 years later I still feel the same about this movie and think it sucks. I realize now this was before the 13 reasons mess and before people realized how awful Netflix is when covering any sort of serious or sensitive topic. In 2017 everyone was still just sucking Netflix and the 2 famous actors here ****.
I remember when I first watched it and I felt really uncomfortable with the fact the Luke knew who Ellen was years before they first met and that he felt like he was owed a relationship with her because he followed her on Tumblr
5:08 Yo this part went right over my head the first time I watched. Thats kind of messed up. They could have just used some random magazine cover or talked about shopping for clothes with sizing if they wanted to express how some people with disorders think normal sizes are large. They didn't have to come for emma like that.
I think they could have said “lily collins is kinda fat, isn’t she”. I guess that would be funny, bc, well, she is talking to lily collins herself. Idk 😅
Your review is so spot on I was especially uncomfortable with the sexual stuff like … so many ppl w EDs have been assaulted or abused and so many parts of this movie seem like they were specifically put in to trigger that😭
edtumblr tried to convice everyone it was so good, now edtumblr fucking hates it lmaooo as least the people apart of edtumblr who deromantises eating disorders
I watched to the bone and it's just so stereotypical a white woman having a ed and the only guy was at least not gay but he was a dancer I honestly just watched it to trigger myself and honestly i really don't like it
I completely agree with you about the therapist. I HATED his methods. Eli could never vent or talk about her problems without being just down and told to basically suck it up. Eli was never taught how to cope or how to get better at all. The only teaching method was suck it up and be happy because its your choice to be happy. I guess they didn’t take people with depression who have chemical imbalances in their brain into consideration. Kind of hard to be happy when you psychically and mentally can’t.
I hated the fact that they change a psychological ussue into a romantic movie! I really got disappointed after watching TO THE BONE because I wanted to know more about eating disorders but ending with another Netflix teenage love :)))
finally someone talked abt this bc i only watched this to trigger myself. i don't get how a lot of people are so happy with it like wth? it's so unrealistic and problematic, it's annoying
same, this is my "trigger" movie too, dispite that, im irritated that all the main characters are Anorexic, I'm diagnosed with both anorexia and bulimia, and theres nothing that touched on the bulimia side of things except for what, 3 scenes? The nurse mentioning the vomiting, the actress who was in red band society saying how ice cream was her favourite binge beacuse it comes up easy and the bag vomit scene. it just feels like the writers only really did research into anorexia and the steryotypical no food over exercising steryotype
I literally love this video so much!! And is it just me or did the whole film feel fetish-y, the moaning, the cool doctor, all of the sex talk, the bottle scene, the cake, it all feels sort of fetish-y in a way
I just watch "To The Bone" to trigger myself. In fact, that is just about the case for all eating disorder content. I do not take any eating disorder movie all that seriously. The only ones I really liked was "Karen Carpenter" and "The Brief Life Of Catherine" but those two were true stories, so...
This genre in media does seem pretty terrible. I read some novels back in the day that were for "eating disorder awareness" for young girls but they'd give full descriptions on "what to do". I'd bet anything someone with an ED has followed what was written in them.
Right, i developed my own while following this movie like a to-do list… which was my own actions of course, but the fact that i COULD get an ed while watching this movie says a lot
I never realized how little everyone regards Ellens opinion's and every time she said no. I'd understand if they were trying to show that she wasn't in the right state of mind to make decisions for herself being so sick. But the whole message during therapy is about thinking for yourself, making your own path to recovery and taking responsibility or "growing a pair" as her therapist said. Yet every time Ellen tried to be independent she's shot down. Doesn't want to sleep with a man she just met? She's a bad person. She can't recover in a place that enables disordered eating, her fault she didn't get better. Therapist discourages family confrontation and communication? Ellens fault for not having family connections.
I remembered this movie as I watched the video, but holy shiz I repressed that so hard. Also Luke is a predator! Bringing up sexual trauma and then... being more trauma. He was a firm antagonist to me
What frustrated me about the movie is they never really explained why Ellen has an eating disorder in the first place. Eating disorders don't usually just come out of nowhere.
They didn’t explain it but it was there. Her parents are divorced and she feels out of control due to the fact. Her dad is always working and her biological mom hardly pays attention to her.
I don't think I actually got halfway through the movie- the "therapy" was bs, the other housemates more like background one-liners and the dancer boy was so damn creepy I cringed away from the screen everytime he got close to Ellen. I actually feel bad for the actress, 'cause if I don't remember wrong she has had (still has?) an ed, (she talked about it in interviews, I think), and she had to memorise this bs script, probably revisiting some bad memories in the process. I think all those cliches could have fared better if it was done intentionally, as in Ellen got closure and actually recieved helpful help (yes, the helpful distinction is needed) to actually start to get better, even in small steps, and realised what bs all that had been. But no, instead we get Netflix acting like they're very "woke" and falling flat at being actually impactful. then again, 13 y.o me would've loved this movie as "inspiration" as much as she loved the cliche ed books, so maybe we just aren't their target audience anymore ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ (ty for the review, btw, it really saved me having to actually sit down for the movie just to sate my own curiosity since people still talk about this movie)
This movie made me relapse so freaking hard like the thinspo shots, the calorie counting, the over exercising. All super triggering absolutely one of the worst ED movies ever also Luke sucked and I hated every scene he was in.
They do so little to portray any of the emotional, trauma based, or just non-superficial aspects and causes of EDs. There's that one conversation between Luke and Ellen, but the subject is never brought up again and just kind of pushed away as an unimportant side plot, when in reality that may have been a huge contributor to Ellen's ED that really should have been addressed. The whole film just came across like it was saying "Ellen literally never eats because that's all an ED is, but don't worry because all she needs is a boy to save her". Not to mention that you don't see any of the characters get better throughout the entire course of the movie. Yes, recovery is a long and difficult process, but it seems like everyone only gets sicker because they don't ever do anything to challenge to their EDs. They all consistently use ED behaviours while actively in treatment, and nobody ever gives them any alternatives or ways to cope. All the major plot points were either pretty much irrelevant to EDs or wholly unnecessary, while all the things that should have gotten more focus (Ellen's SA, her dad, anybody's backstory, comorbid mental illnesses, etc) were completely brushed under the rug and forgotten about.
i’ve been watching this film for years whenever i relapse because it’s triggering lol. i usually turn it off at the halfway point because i only watch for the tips and thinspo and not the actual story😁
One of the worst things for me was the interview where lily allen says that she got underweight for the movie in a HeALThY WaY which was the biggest ED promo for me ever cuz she could do it safely so i can too
This movie feels like someone wanted to write one of those terminally ill romance stories, but they wanted it to be edgier so they made the illness anorexia instead.
i tried watching it to trigger myself, keyword tried it was so horrible and so damn boring i was literally falling asleep while watching it, so i skipped some parts and basically barely watched it btw there's this one movie i really love, it's called my skinny sister (min lilla syster), it's not glamorized or anything, it's heartbreaking, and i think those who have younger siblings and an eating disorder will be more affected by it. the movie shows perfectly all the ugly parts of having a restrictive eating disorder, and it definitely got me emotional. i recommended all 100%!
I hated this movie and was so hyped to see something on a streaming service that would resonate with my own personal experiences. They could've gone deeper, but I didn't feel like the characters had much depth. Honestly I feel like Binge by HLG Studios was more brutally honest with mia/ana struggles (reactions, relationships, dirty little things we try to hide).
I might be wrong, but I think part of the reason she sounded like that doing sit-ups is because it might be hard for her to lift herself up from the floor.
it gets your heart rate up, if you cant do high knees (very hard, i'd know, im anorexic) do sit ups for a few reasons. one, you're sat down, you faint, you're not gonna fall too far or too hard. two, heart rate goes up, calories go down. three, a toned core looks good, but thats only really a reason for some, if you're struggling to stand up, sit ups arent gonna help
It genuinely weirded me out to see them talk about real life actresses and their bodies, like if this is supposed to be helping people with disorders, why are you pointing THAT out...? I'm not saying the actresses will get hugely effected by it (hopefully?) but like, that's one of the reasons EDs even start. Luke and her relationship weirded me out too, I feel like I would have been fine with them just being friends and maybe him motivating her a little but no, they had to go THERE.
This movie was in no way realistic to what outpatient looks like. They did state that this was a “special outpatient program” and “extremely hard to get into” which was okay, but probably needed to be pointed out more due to people expecting this now to be what inpatient that’s not in a hospital to look like. There were a few things I really did enjoy about the movie even if they weren’t 100% realistic. The “calorie Asperger’s” scene between the siblings was fairly accurate between two sisters, as jokes about the problem are very common. They NAILED the representation of rich parent problems and divorced family life. Ellen’s humiliation attempt to “force change” is so accurate to people who don’t understand the problem. The 80% of the jokes between the patients between each other were accurate, especially when it comes to helping hide each other’s self destructive behavior. They also did a fairly good job of showing different people at different stages of an ED. Different EDs and different ED habits, younger, older, etc. Pretty much every other part is wrong. The sexualization of the food is not accurate at all. Yes the joking at the restaurant is accurate between 2 ED patients, but everything else fell flat. Outside of a few jokes, the rest of the restaurant scene is terrible. Especially trying to make it a “date”. Yes, attempts at dating at any inpatient setting is a HUGE problem. But guess what, us nurses monitor that and put in rules/regulations to keep that from occurring. The last 30 minutes after the unwanted sexual advancement and then immediately her going on this “spiritual awakening” with her mother was just no. Absolutely weird and not. And with the mom they tried to shoot it artistically to make up for it makes me even angrier.
I guess when I watched the movie for the first time I didn't see all these red flags, but now that I've watched your review, I can't unsee it. It's just, too much. Thanks for sharing this
I watched the movie with my family during Christmas dinner & at that time i was already suffering with my ED for about one & a half year. We were eating while watching the move & something abt it triggered the shit out of me. Now that im more comfortable with my ED i watched it again & since i wasn’t just focusing on how triggered i felt by the way she handled her methods to lose weight & paid attention to the actual story & realized how wrong this whole movie actually is. Like why did they make Luke pressure her to sleep with him, as well as all the other sexual indications, like??? (Theres in general something really wrong with his character in the whole movie) I really thought this would be a good movie about the journey of someone with an eating disorder, but instead it just triggered me more.
All of the characters are portrayed as stereotypically underweight. Why is no one talking about this?? Except the one binge eater of course. It’s really not that hard to throw a person in to represent atypical anorexia. This wasn’t awareness, it’s just pushing the emaciated stereotype that prevents people from getting help, because they don’t “look like” they have an ED
Literally the only reason people liked this movie was because of Keanu reeves and Lily Collins. It was crap from the start. Western fans idolize these actors like kpop fans do idols. they will eat up any crap they put out like it's some cinematic masterpiece when it's generic and harmful af.
how is showing calorie counting, exercise, peoples bodies and whatnot glamorising? If there’s going to be a movie about eating disorders, you have to show what they’re like or what is the movie about? It’s not glamorising it’s just showing what people do and what they go through. it’s just what it is. Also the ‘sexualisation’ of the exercise is not sexualising at all since people actually STRUGGLE to exercise when you’re at that point and him sexualising the chocolate is something that he just does to get her to eat it without sounding ‘gluttonous’ because that typical yummy description of food would make them disgusted. Her spitting out the food is a very common behaviour in people with EDs and the grossness of it is kinda necessary to show the reality of EDs and how UNGLAMOROUS it is which u earlier claimed that the movie was glamorising EDs.
yeah i agree. this movie was actually realistic and showed how anorexic ppl behave and why they develop this disorder , instead of just trying to be the skinny girl for beauty standarts because this is the most stereotype for anorexic people. however, the main character was going through depression as well and she was so much like my friend.
Thank you!! I grew up in the abusive and manipulative family and overall anvirement and for the longest time i somehow, for some reason loved this movie. Untill i realized it was feeding me the thing i ate my whole life and the very thing that was poisoning me. My point is i worry for every one who likes this movie now.
as someone whos struggled with an ed for 15 years and been to treatment several times; i admittedly only ever watched this movie to get triggered. its an awful representation of ed treatment and ed in general, and despite what they want to believe, does glamorize and promote ed.
I think the point of the bottle feeding scene is to show how uncapable as a mother Ellen's mom is, and how expecting help from the outside is fueled by constant denial of her actual situation. I mean the woman tries to help, but in the end she is overwhelmed by her own emotions, and the daughter has to take responsibility in order to make her mother feel better. The scene shows us how forced and awkward can be to expect holding and caring from someone so wounded as that woman, and in a way Ellen feels it to, but at the same time it helps her to get over the denial, and start accepting that she needs to grow up and start taking care of herself, because her parents are not going to do it, and even though it's very unfair, taking responsibility can give her the opportunity to live and find happiness, instead of waiting for someone to get her out of her state. I have had an ed for about 6 years, so I can confirm many parts of the film were very triggering, but I didn't hate it so much, just the "romantic" sh*te, as the guy was really disgusting and it was contradictory to the "take responsibility and find happiness" whole message of the film. Like, that guy and the relationship they tried to portray really messed up a film that was not perfect, but at least had some potential.
This movie left me feeling so freaking angry that in order to calm myself doen I made up the rest of the story in my mind. That was the only way I could stop myself from projectile vomiting 😹 So the Mums find out what was really going on in the clinic - file a lawsuit, the clinic gets shut down, the therapist loses his title and goes bankrupt, potentially serving jail time for endangering minors. The Dad gets in a car crash. Luke gets a restraining order against him because he's a disgusting pr*dator and narcissistic lil sh*t. I would like him to meet his demise but realistically idk how unless he hurt someone else then got locked up for good. Or gets in a car crash. Then Eli gets better, happier and healthier. She finally has hope for the future, heals the wounds with her mums and sister, and rides off into the sunset living happily ever after. Poetic justice 👌🏻
@@kkuuuuaa I actually still have my website up with links to those (link in bio). Unfortunately as CZcams became more of a business where people upload for a living, copywrite got stricter. Most films are blocked, banned or manually removed after a few months. I've tried uploading some old stuff to dailmymotion but there's a daily cap on what can be uploaded and even videos on there get removed time to time. Honestly I just feel burned out re-uploading them all the time. At the very least I have a list on my website of every video/movie/tv show episode I ever uploaded in the past. So you guys can at least search google for other 3rd party suppliers :)
To the bone is very out of touch and unrealistic, what about the digestive issues because everyone with an ed experiences it, also your sex drive and drive for romance would be gone due to the absence of sex hormones and you wouldn't have energy to draw as you would only be thinking about food.
The guy reminded me a boy I met in a hospital that was imposing himself at me. He would not leave me alone (sat by my bed most of my first nighy) and the second I turned him down, he started acting really mean and pulling "pranks" on me. I was 14 and he was 17, but we were sleeping in the same room. I asked my dad to take me home, so he requested early release. So Luke brought up some bad memories.
this is a reupload right? i remember watching this bc i was so excited when it came out bc it was at the height of my ana and thought it was ok but i watching it a lot to cope in stuff. i wanted to see ppl w my problems and this vid made me realize how toxic it was :/
I lost it at "Markiplier's twin doctor" 😭😭😭😭 Love your reviews!! Came here from the "Starving in Suburbia" review and I love your commentary and style of comedic delivery!!
1:00 those scenes weren't unnecessary in my opinion. It shows the experience and how ridiculous it is. As someone with anorexia, they're realistic. The shots showing her body aren't 'thinspo' shots, they're there to show how bad and unhealthy it's gotten.
I remember being so excited to see this film ...then I was so disappointed. I felt like I watching some weird romance movie. And the guy was just plain annoying. I found the movie just annoying in general
As an anorexic person I only watch this film for thinspo tbh. Luke is creepy, the residential is soooo unrealistic and the doctors / therapists are all insensitive and all the men are on a pedestal; the main doctor, luke, even Ellen’s dad (through shitting on her mum and step mums ability to care for her).
I completely agree. As someone who has and still does struggle with an ED (and a whole mess of other mental health problems!! 🙄) I found this movie ridiculous. It romanticises and glamorises it. Lily Collins looks stunning as Ellen which is and was SUPPPPPPERRR triggering! Yes the actress is pretty but they made her the poster child of triggering. There’s no real plot, character background on any of the characters so no real story, there’s a lot of contradictions and completely unrealistic incidents and mostly. Luke. Completely wasted and highly toxic character. The bit that pissed me off the most was him pushing his feeling toward her onto HER “you’re my muse’youre my thing” bla bla. That scene on the stairs “you’re my next thing” that is NOT romantic that is toxic af!!!!! People are not a “thing” Jesus. Mari whatever her name is writing sucks and it’s a completely stupid script. Awful. Toxic. Triggering. Unrealistic. The desert was pretty tho!
this entire time i thought that emma stone was anna, the girl calling emma big, so i thought they chose emma to make it kinda okay??? idk but i only just realised it WASNT EMMA and its kathryn prescott....
LOL love this review as a film buff with an eating disorder. My mom actually really likes To The Bone despite it not being true to any of my experiences at all. I mean fucking Starving In Suburbia was more accurate to my experiences than this, because at least it actually showed good representation of a boy with an eating disorder and how they can kill you. Its pro-ana site representation... not as good. The one thing I found accurate was that Ellen was enabled to get to as low of a weight as she did, her family didn't know how to deal with her ED. Also, if you didn't know - Lily Collins is Phil Collins' daughter! My mom was still trying to wrap her brain around that when I told her that. Also, I dislike Alex Sharp and much prefer Alex Lawther as a "compatible" actor. Also the calorie Asperger's joke doesn't make sense as someone with actual Asperger's. "Calorie OCD" would have made more sense, although no less insensitive.
This scene was so uncomfortable, Luke was such a annoying character I don’t understand why the writers made him so sexual, in reality a lot anorexic people lose their sx drive because of their low weight yet this man is obsessed to do it with her
You got it all on point (and it’s refreshing AF to hear someone speak without likeeeeee and literalllyyyy 🤦🏻🤦🏻I knew watching your other videos that you’d be intelligent and funny. You really ought to make more of these 💕) but the only thing that rand a bit weird to me is due to the way you phrased things, it sounded like you were calling the dad an asshole for breaking up with a woman (the mom) who turned out to be gay..that’s not an asshole move lol just needed to point that out 🤗🫣🫣
I remember the theory saying that "the patient has to get to the bottom to get better". This is such bullshit. And then again, as in many ed treatments, it basiclly says "The patient wanted it to happen, he/she/they need to get better on her/his/their own. Let her/him/them deal with their shit." Or just "Grow up", "grow a pair", "eat". It makes ed patient looks mean, unwilling, with no desire to get better, when in fact, they're in pain too and may actually have been through a lot in their life. I can't stand the fact that ed patients are dehumanized in such ways and presented as the villain, meanwhile a lot of people are actually to blame.
What about the body doubles? You can clearly see the actress isn’t that skinny in many scenes. The body double stuff is just weird. She even says in interviews she “at times” wears prosthetics. Wondering if her body double got any credit to the film because that’s what most people want to watch it for. Thinspo…unfortunately. But this was written off the writer or directors true story so much that was portrayed was based on events that happened. My only point you don’t mention. Kinda surprised you didn’t know that.
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Luke was stepping over boundaries as if it was an extreme sport
Well with dancing down the drain what other sport is there lol
He was?
So true! He was seriously annoying and disrespectful. Not in a cruel way, but childish and immature way. Still gross!
LITERALLY IT MADE ME SO FUCKING ANGRY I HATE HIM SO MUCH ESP FORCING HER TO EAT?!?! WTF MAN THAT IS NOT HOW YOU BE AORUND SOMEONE WTH AN ED.
Thank you! I hated Luke. No one mentioned it
Only Netflix would think having our male lead pressure a girl who went through SA to sleep with him is romantic 🤡🤡🤡
I remember critics LOVED this movie. Meanwhile, I think the worst sin of this movie is that it’s just so fucking boring. I have never once watched this movie all the way through because it just felt like watching paint dry
SAME. Other ED Films like Starving in Suburbia also sucked but at least they were entertaining to watch and had good pacing 😂😂 A lot of Disorder movies are in the "so bad it's good" category, but To the Bone was so bland.
@@amfgvideos2517 it's weird that you complain about how bad the place was but other people with ED claim it was much more fun than real in patient, in real life it wouldn't be any group therapy, any private therapy and no summer camp fun
i just cried for 2 hours this movie makes me so sad bro@@amfgvideos2517
I liked that you talked about the stereotypes. All the black women characters being fat, the only obese character with the binge ed also being a black girl, only the white characters were anorexic, there were also no fat white characters. The tropes are soooo overdone. Statistically anorexia affects all races the same. So in a clinic, you'll see people from all kinds of backgrounds, not just 16yr old white girls.
Pearl isn’t white
as someone’s who’s been in inpatient treatment for anorexia, this is wildly unrealistic. we were monitored 24/7. there was no opportunity to purge or exercise, you were never by ourself with nurses checking on you every hour. ellen’s discharge is also so unrealistic. you have to meet your target weight otherwise it’s a no. completely non negotiable.
haven’t watched this movie but i know enough about it. thanks for the analysis, i think you called out some things that need to be talked about.
Yeah, the most unrealistic thing is that she gets discharged while still being underweight, like that never happens
@@leafymushroom9384 oh my goodness, I know. I get that it “doesn’t glamourise anorexia” or whatever but it just doesn’t make sense. Netflix needs to leave mental illness alone up less they involve someone of that community deeply in the screenwriting process
The clinic was fucking mental. It made zero sense
I’ve had treatment experiences fairly similar to the house in the film actually (but the staff were more accountable) they were offered to people that were treatment resistant and had been unwell for many years or decades. We’d already been through conventional treatment more times than I can count, tried every therapy and medication going. Our families had burnt themselves out years ago and many of the patients stood a chance of never recovering. It was just about trying to increase our quality of life in the moment, trying to show people that there was more to their life than their illness
She didn't even get discharged she just dipped lmao
This film was so tone deaf despite trying to be woke.
Obviously it's unrealistic to make the characters all magically get better by the end but notice how they ALL GOT WORSE? But Netflix portrays it like it was for the better? Between mia hiding her purge bags, Megans miscarriage (for what the therapist NEVER GAVE HER THERAPY FOR), Luke permanently injuring himself and other side characters never getting over their food addictions. The whole house was scamming them of their time and money. The only time Ellen starts to recover a bit is when she gets away from the recovery center at the end. ARE THEY SELF AWARE OR NOT?
tbh i don’t even think it was trying to be woke. it had a lot of forced insensitive jokes like “calorie aspergers” and the emma stone comment like jeez
@@theinvisiblegirl2501 Thats the joke. Emma obviously isnt "fat". Thats why its funny. It suppose to be a "out of water" type joke, like "its crazy that people can see that this way". Doubleing down with "shes atleast a size 6" is hammering it in. Most people would find that crazy. Plus, the actor in the scene saying it is no thinner than Emma.
@@spoons250 yeah, we get the joke. It just wasn’t funny. Imagine making a high budget movie and actively talking about another person’s weight on there like- regardless of the “intent” it was tasteless and unfunny. idk who “most people” is since most people actually found it unfunny.
You know I worry about Lily, after this movie she never did gain the weight back. And since Emily in Paris S2 she looks sickly thin again. The script in that show has a lot of subtle jabs towards not eating and being "thin & chic like French women"
No body double sorry
SHE WAS IN EMILY IN PARIS WHAT THATS WHY SHE LOOK FIMILAR IN THE INTERVIEW PHOTOS
Apparently according to some of the interviews she did for To The Bone, Lily struggled with anorexia and bulimia so maybe losing weight for the film triggered a relapse
thank god when I watched it the first time I noticed all the poc were binge eaters and joke characters… it made me feel really weird and I typically don’t care about things like that but it was so obvious 😭
so glad someone finally stopped pretending to like this damn movie 👏
so yeah it was so fucking weird like why did the writers add in the r slur, why did they do the poc women based on harmful stereotypes, why did they have to do it all just so we felt like we needed to pity a fucking prierleged white girl. this film makes me rage ah
This was an old review I made years ago and thought I lost. Let me know if you guys like this sort of commentary videos or are interested in more? The audio is so bad because I recorded it on my laptop, hopefully I can find something better. Looking back 5 years later I still feel the same about this movie and think it sucks. I realize now this was before the 13 reasons mess and before people realized how awful Netflix is when covering any sort of serious or sensitive topic. In 2017 everyone was still just sucking Netflix and the 2 famous actors here ****.
@@keke3897 Some of them you can find on her blog
I love these kind of videos! So if it makes you happy producing them, do it
I love hearing your voice! I’d like your K-pop videos to have your voice on them. Best of both worlds.
I loved these videos!
Omg!!! I loveee this style of videos from you! I would also love to see new ones! Your commentary videos are the best!
Netflix needs to stay away from these mental health topics. But man is it fun to watch people make fun of them 🍿
Y E S
the worst scene might be the one where luke is trying to force her to eat the chocolate I FELT SO UNCOMFORTABLE
I remember when I first watched it and I felt really uncomfortable with the fact the Luke knew who Ellen was years before they first met and that he felt like he was owed a relationship with her because he followed her on Tumblr
Such an incel
ikr! That was so creepy
5:08 Yo this part went right over my head the first time I watched. Thats kind of messed up. They could have just used some random magazine cover or talked about shopping for clothes with sizing if they wanted to express how some people with disorders think normal sizes are large. They didn't have to come for emma like that.
I think they could have said “lily collins is kinda fat, isn’t she”. I guess that would be funny, bc, well, she is talking to lily collins herself. Idk 😅
That part affected me so negatively.
Your review is so spot on I was especially uncomfortable with the sexual stuff like … so many ppl w EDs have been assaulted or abused and so many parts of this movie seem like they were specifically put in to trigger that😭
I think the most common opinion on this movie was that it was a terrible ED movie. And that most of the community watched it to be triggered...
I mean that's I watched it
Plus there's not Alot of other stuff that talks about ED well
edtumblr tried to convice everyone it was so good, now edtumblr fucking hates it lmaooo as least the people apart of edtumblr who deromantises eating disorders
I watched to the bone and it's just so stereotypical a white woman having a ed and the only guy was at least not gay but he was a dancer
I honestly just watched it to trigger myself and honestly i really don't like it
I also watched it to trigger myself, so I get you.
I completely agree with you about the therapist. I HATED his methods. Eli could never vent or talk about her problems without being just down and told to basically suck it up. Eli was never taught how to cope or how to get better at all. The only teaching method was suck it up and be happy because its your choice to be happy. I guess they didn’t take people with depression who have chemical imbalances in their brain into consideration. Kind of hard to be happy when you psychically and mentally can’t.
I hated the fact that they change a psychological ussue into a romantic movie! I really got disappointed after watching TO THE BONE because I wanted to know more about eating disorders but ending with another Netflix teenage love :)))
finally someone talked abt this bc i only watched this to trigger myself. i don't get how a lot of people are so happy with it like wth? it's so unrealistic and problematic, it's annoying
same, this is my "trigger" movie too, dispite that, im irritated that all the main characters are Anorexic, I'm diagnosed with both anorexia and bulimia, and theres nothing that touched on the bulimia side of things except for what, 3 scenes? The nurse mentioning the vomiting, the actress who was in red band society saying how ice cream was her favourite binge beacuse it comes up easy and the bag vomit scene. it just feels like the writers only really did research into anorexia and the steryotypical no food over exercising steryotype
I literally love this video so much!! And is it just me or did the whole film feel fetish-y, the moaning, the cool doctor, all of the sex talk, the bottle scene, the cake, it all feels sort of fetish-y in a way
it does! it feels extremely weird. especially the candy bar scene in the living room. agh.
I just watch "To The Bone" to trigger myself. In fact, that is just about the case for all eating disorder content. I do not take any eating disorder movie all that seriously. The only ones I really liked was "Karen Carpenter" and "The Brief Life Of Catherine" but those two were true stories, so...
have you seen "my skinny sister"?
This genre in media does seem pretty terrible. I read some novels back in the day that were for "eating disorder awareness" for young girls but they'd give full descriptions on "what to do". I'd bet anything someone with an ED has followed what was written in them.
Right, i developed my own while following this movie like a to-do list… which was my own actions of course, but the fact that i COULD get an ed while watching this movie says a lot
"Oh thanks I feel so inspired to be healthy now"
Honestly every adult in this movie sucks, including the adults playing teens 😂
I never realized how little everyone regards Ellens opinion's and every time she said no. I'd understand if they were trying to show that she wasn't in the right state of mind to make decisions for herself being so sick. But the whole message during therapy is about thinking for yourself, making your own path to recovery and taking responsibility or "growing a pair" as her therapist said. Yet every time Ellen tried to be independent she's shot down.
Doesn't want to sleep with a man she just met? She's a bad person.
She can't recover in a place that enables disordered eating, her fault she didn't get better.
Therapist discourages family confrontation and communication? Ellens fault for not having family connections.
I remembered this movie as I watched the video, but holy shiz I repressed that so hard.
Also Luke is a predator! Bringing up sexual trauma and then... being more trauma. He was a firm antagonist to me
Don’t forget just how much of a creep Luke was. Never forget how much of a creep Luke was.
What frustrated me about the movie is they never really explained why Ellen has an eating disorder in the first place. Eating disorders don't usually just come out of nowhere.
They didn’t explain it but it was there. Her parents are divorced and she feels out of control due to the fact. Her dad is always working and her biological mom hardly pays attention to her.
I don't think I actually got halfway through the movie- the "therapy" was bs, the other housemates more like background one-liners and the dancer boy was so damn creepy I cringed away from the screen everytime he got close to Ellen. I actually feel bad for the actress, 'cause if I don't remember wrong she has had (still has?) an ed, (she talked about it in interviews, I think), and she had to memorise this bs script, probably revisiting some bad memories in the process.
I think all those cliches could have fared better if it was done intentionally, as in Ellen got closure and actually recieved helpful help (yes, the helpful distinction is needed) to actually start to get better, even in small steps, and realised what bs all that had been.
But no, instead we get Netflix acting like they're very "woke" and falling flat at being actually impactful.
then again, 13 y.o me would've loved this movie as "inspiration" as much as she loved the cliche ed books, so maybe we just aren't their target audience anymore ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
(ty for the review, btw, it really saved me having to actually sit down for the movie just to sate my own curiosity since people still talk about this movie)
I wish the show focused on the other sufferers more. Instead we got a sloppy romance plot haha
This movie made me relapse so freaking hard like the thinspo shots, the calorie counting, the over exercising. All super triggering absolutely one of the worst ED movies ever also Luke sucked and I hated every scene he was in.
I understand the rest, but calorie counting is a main part of anorexia. It makes sense that they put that in. As someone with anorexia.
They do so little to portray any of the emotional, trauma based, or just non-superficial aspects and causes of EDs. There's that one conversation between Luke and Ellen, but the subject is never brought up again and just kind of pushed away as an unimportant side plot, when in reality that may have been a huge contributor to Ellen's ED that really should have been addressed. The whole film just came across like it was saying "Ellen literally never eats because that's all an ED is, but don't worry because all she needs is a boy to save her".
Not to mention that you don't see any of the characters get better throughout the entire course of the movie. Yes, recovery is a long and difficult process, but it seems like everyone only gets sicker because they don't ever do anything to challenge to their EDs. They all consistently use ED behaviours while actively in treatment, and nobody ever gives them any alternatives or ways to cope. All the major plot points were either pretty much irrelevant to EDs or wholly unnecessary, while all the things that should have gotten more focus (Ellen's SA, her dad, anybody's backstory, comorbid mental illnesses, etc) were completely brushed under the rug and forgotten about.
I thought you'd never release these videos again! I loved these old style videos you used to make 😭
i’ve been watching this film for years whenever i relapse because it’s triggering lol. i usually turn it off at the halfway point because i only watch for the tips and thinspo and not the actual story😁
Yea cause the story sucks lol
Samee lmfao
One of the worst things for me was the interview where lily allen says that she got underweight for the movie in a HeALThY WaY which was the biggest ED promo for me ever cuz she could do it safely so i can too
This movie feels like someone wanted to write one of those terminally ill romance stories, but they wanted it to be edgier so they made the illness anorexia instead.
i tried watching it to trigger myself, keyword tried
it was so horrible and so damn boring i was literally falling asleep while watching it, so i skipped some parts and basically barely watched it
btw there's this one movie i really love, it's called my skinny sister (min lilla syster), it's not glamorized or anything, it's heartbreaking, and i think those who have younger siblings and an eating disorder will be more affected by it.
the movie shows perfectly all the ugly parts of having a restrictive eating disorder, and it definitely got me emotional. i recommended all 100%!
I hated this movie and was so hyped to see something on a streaming service that would resonate with my own personal experiences. They could've gone deeper, but I didn't feel like the characters had much depth. Honestly I feel like Binge by HLG Studios was more brutally honest with mia/ana struggles (reactions, relationships, dirty little things we try to hide).
I might be wrong, but I think part of the reason she sounded like that doing sit-ups is because it might be hard for her to lift herself up from the floor.
it gets your heart rate up, if you cant do high knees (very hard, i'd know, im anorexic) do sit ups for a few reasons. one, you're sat down, you faint, you're not gonna fall too far or too hard.
two, heart rate goes up, calories go down. three, a toned core looks good, but thats only really a reason for some, if you're struggling to stand up, sit ups arent gonna help
Oh gosh I remember months ago looking for your reviews and being so sad haha I'm glad you re-uploaded this and hope you upload the others!
It genuinely weirded me out to see them talk about real life actresses and their bodies, like if this is supposed to be helping people with disorders, why are you pointing THAT out...? I'm not saying the actresses will get hugely effected by it (hopefully?) but like, that's one of the reasons EDs even start.
Luke and her relationship weirded me out too, I feel like I would have been fine with them just being friends and maybe him motivating her a little but no, they had to go THERE.
13 year old me loved this movie a little too much
They should have know they messed up when it started popping up in Tumblr as inspiration
It isn’t a good movie but for someone like me just looking to trigger themselves it’s perfect.
This movie was in no way realistic to what outpatient looks like. They did state that this was a “special outpatient program” and “extremely hard to get into” which was okay, but probably needed to be pointed out more due to people expecting this now to be what inpatient that’s not in a hospital to look like.
There were a few things I really did enjoy about the movie even if they weren’t 100% realistic. The “calorie Asperger’s” scene between the siblings was fairly accurate between two sisters, as jokes about the problem are very common.
They NAILED the representation of rich parent problems and divorced family life. Ellen’s humiliation attempt to “force change” is so accurate to people who don’t understand the problem.
The 80% of the jokes between the patients between each other were accurate, especially when it comes to helping hide each other’s self destructive behavior.
They also did a fairly good job of showing different people at different stages of an ED. Different EDs and different ED habits, younger, older, etc.
Pretty much every other part is wrong. The sexualization of the food is not accurate at all. Yes the joking at the restaurant is accurate between 2 ED patients, but everything else fell flat. Outside of a few jokes, the rest of the restaurant scene is terrible. Especially trying to make it a “date”. Yes, attempts at dating at any inpatient setting is a HUGE problem. But guess what, us nurses monitor that and put in rules/regulations to keep that from occurring.
The last 30 minutes after the unwanted sexual advancement and then immediately her going on this “spiritual awakening” with her mother was just no. Absolutely weird and not. And with the mom they tried to shoot it artistically to make up for it makes me even angrier.
NOT MARKIPLIER LMAOOO
I guess when I watched the movie for the first time I didn't see all these red flags, but now that I've watched your review, I can't unsee it. It's just, too much. Thanks for sharing this
I hope you make more commentary videos / video essays! I really enjoyed this video.
yes she did well she said everything
The only thing we could enjoy was Keanu reeves.
i’m so glad you reuploaded this
I watched the movie with my family during Christmas dinner & at that time i was already suffering with my ED for about one & a half year. We were eating while watching the move & something abt it triggered the shit out of me.
Now that im more comfortable with my ED i watched it again & since i wasn’t just focusing on how triggered i felt by the way she handled her methods to lose weight & paid attention to the actual story & realized how wrong this whole movie actually is. Like why did they make Luke pressure her to sleep with him, as well as all the other sexual indications, like???
(Theres in general something really wrong with his character in the whole movie)
I really thought this would be a good movie about the journey of someone with an eating disorder, but instead it just triggered me more.
All of the characters are portrayed as stereotypically underweight. Why is no one talking about this?? Except the one binge eater of course. It’s really not that hard to throw a person in to represent atypical anorexia. This wasn’t awareness, it’s just pushing the emaciated stereotype that prevents people from getting help, because they don’t “look like” they have an ED
Guess I’m used to dudes being like that British guy I didn’t even notice how TRASH his character was
i loved your review, please bring more!!!!!! You’re the funniest ❤
To anyone that wants to watch a better ED movie, I'd recommend Feed(2017).
omg this movie was awful!! i felt so uncomfortable by the brittish dancer boy 💀
I love the review soo much! A mom's friend watched it, recommended to her and she wanted me to watch and OHHH GIRL, I feel brain dead after watching
Literally the only reason people liked this movie was because of Keanu reeves and Lily Collins. It was crap from the start. Western fans idolize these actors like kpop fans do idols. they will eat up any crap they put out like it's some cinematic masterpiece when it's generic and harmful af.
That and to trigger themselves
Love hearing you narrating a video!
Also yeah this movie is crap
how is showing calorie counting, exercise, peoples bodies and whatnot glamorising? If there’s going to be a movie about eating disorders, you have to show what they’re like or what is the movie about? It’s not glamorising it’s just showing what people do and what they go through. it’s just what it is.
Also the ‘sexualisation’ of the exercise is not sexualising at all since people actually STRUGGLE to exercise when you’re at that point and him sexualising the chocolate is something that he just does to get her to eat it without sounding ‘gluttonous’ because that typical yummy description of food would make them disgusted.
Her spitting out the food is a very common behaviour in people with EDs and the grossness of it is kinda necessary to show the reality of EDs and how UNGLAMOROUS it is which u earlier claimed that the movie was glamorising EDs.
yeah i agree. this movie was actually realistic and showed how anorexic ppl behave and why they develop this disorder , instead of just trying to be the skinny girl for beauty standarts because this is the most stereotype for anorexic people. however, the main character was going through depression as well and she was so much like my friend.
Thank you!! I grew up in the abusive and manipulative family and overall anvirement and for the longest time i somehow, for some reason loved this movie. Untill i realized it was feeding me the thing i ate my whole life and the very thing that was poisoning me. My point is i worry for every one who likes this movie now.
as someone whos struggled with an ed for 15 years and been to treatment several times; i admittedly only ever watched this movie to get triggered. its an awful representation of ed treatment and ed in general, and despite what they want to believe, does glamorize and promote ed.
3:25 no, people just make noises when doing sit-ups
I think the point of the bottle feeding scene is to show how uncapable as a mother Ellen's mom is, and how expecting help from the outside is fueled by constant denial of her actual situation. I mean the woman tries to help, but in the end she is overwhelmed by her own emotions, and the daughter has to take responsibility in order to make her mother feel better. The scene shows us how forced and awkward can be to expect holding and caring from someone so wounded as that woman, and in a way Ellen feels it to, but at the same time it helps her to get over the denial, and start accepting that she needs to grow up and start taking care of herself, because her parents are not going to do it, and even though it's very unfair, taking responsibility can give her the opportunity to live and find happiness, instead of waiting for someone to get her out of her state.
I have had an ed for about 6 years, so I can confirm many parts of the film were very triggering, but I didn't hate it so much, just the "romantic" sh*te, as the guy was really disgusting and it was contradictory to the "take responsibility and find happiness" whole message of the film. Like, that guy and the relationship they tried to portray really messed up a film that was not perfect, but at least had some potential.
omgggg i’ve been watching you since 2017, first time ever hearing ur voice
not you calling Keanu Reeves a Markiplier lookalike, LOOOOL
yay really liked this video format :)
This movie left me feeling so freaking angry that in order to calm myself doen I made up the rest of the story in my mind. That was the only way I could stop myself from projectile vomiting 😹
So the Mums find out what was really going on in the clinic - file a lawsuit, the clinic gets shut down, the therapist loses his title and goes bankrupt, potentially serving jail time for endangering minors. The Dad gets in a car crash. Luke gets a restraining order against him because he's a disgusting pr*dator and narcissistic lil sh*t. I would like him to meet his demise but realistically idk how unless he hurt someone else then got locked up for good. Or gets in a car crash. Then Eli gets better, happier and healthier. She finally has hope for the future, heals the wounds with her mums and sister, and rides off into the sunset living happily ever after. Poetic justice 👌🏻
I like your version, Luke creeped me out so much
The fact that people use it as their thinspo is telling.
I loved this video pls make more reviews
It’s not about glamorizing an Ed it’s just what happens during one
I remember loving this movie to feel strengthened in my anorexic thinking…all those numbers triggered me so bad I went intoa rabbit hole
I missed this video! I'm wondering if you have the on with the list of ED films you did? Thank you for uploading, love your videos♡
same! I miss those vids
I think I know the one you're talking about. I have to dig through my flash drives because thats where I saved/lost a bunch of my older videos haha.
@@amfgvideos2517 would you just make separate playlists for different subjects like before or create a separate channel for ed movies/series?
@@kkuuuuaa I actually still have my website up with links to those (link in bio). Unfortunately as CZcams became more of a business where people upload for a living, copywrite got stricter. Most films are blocked, banned or manually removed after a few months. I've tried uploading some old stuff to dailmymotion but there's a daily cap on what can be uploaded and even videos on there get removed time to time.
Honestly I just feel burned out re-uploading them all the time. At the very least I have a list on my website of every video/movie/tv show episode I ever uploaded in the past. So you guys can at least search google for other 3rd party suppliers :)
@@amfgvideos2517 I forgot about your website! I understand it can get exhausting re-uploading stuff, so no worries
It is super dangerous - clearly the writers hadn't looked into drunkorexia
I only watch to the bone when I relapse
So I can laugh
you know this movie is bad. But i've still watched it like 3 or 4 times
lmao markiplier’s twin brother
To the bone is very out of touch and unrealistic, what about the digestive issues because everyone with an ed experiences it, also your sex drive and drive for romance would be gone due to the absence of sex hormones and you wouldn't have energy to draw as you would only be thinking about food.
The guy reminded me a boy I met in a hospital that was imposing himself at me. He would not leave me alone (sat by my bed most of my first nighy) and the second I turned him down, he started acting really mean and pulling "pranks" on me. I was 14 and he was 17, but we were sleeping in the same room. I asked my dad to take me home, so he requested early release. So Luke brought up some bad memories.
this is a reupload right? i remember watching this bc i was so excited when it came out bc it was at the height of my ana and thought it was ok but i watching it a lot to cope in stuff. i wanted to see ppl w my problems and this vid made me realize how toxic it was :/
I lost it at "Markiplier's twin doctor" 😭😭😭😭 Love your reviews!! Came here from the "Starving in Suburbia" review and I love your commentary and style of comedic delivery!!
i’m about to cancel my netflix membership. it just has too much bad content.
1:00 those scenes weren't unnecessary in my opinion. It shows the experience and how ridiculous it is. As someone with anorexia, they're realistic. The shots showing her body aren't 'thinspo' shots, they're there to show how bad and unhealthy it's gotten.
I remember being so excited to see this film ...then I was so disappointed. I felt like I watching some weird romance movie. And the guy was just plain annoying. I found the movie just annoying in general
4:25 it is not just you do not worry.
"how dare you not want to have sex with me after i asked if you had sexual trauma?"
As an anorexic person I only watch this film for thinspo tbh. Luke is creepy, the residential is soooo unrealistic and the doctors / therapists are all insensitive and all the men are on a pedestal; the main doctor, luke, even Ellen’s dad (through shitting on her mum and step mums ability to care for her).
I completely agree. As someone who has and still does struggle with an ED (and a whole mess of other mental health problems!! 🙄)
I found this movie ridiculous. It romanticises and glamorises it. Lily Collins looks stunning as Ellen which is and was SUPPPPPPERRR triggering! Yes the actress is pretty but they made her the poster child of triggering.
There’s no real plot, character background on any of the characters so no real story, there’s a lot of contradictions and completely unrealistic incidents and mostly. Luke. Completely wasted and highly toxic character.
The bit that pissed me off the most was him pushing his feeling toward her onto HER “you’re my muse’youre my thing” bla bla.
That scene on the stairs “you’re my next thing” that is NOT romantic that is toxic af!!!!! People are not a “thing” Jesus. Mari whatever her name is writing sucks and it’s a completely stupid script. Awful. Toxic. Triggering. Unrealistic. The desert was pretty tho!
this entire time i thought that emma stone was anna, the girl calling emma big, so i thought they chose emma to make it kinda okay??? idk but i only just realised it WASNT EMMA and its kathryn prescott....
LOL love this review as a film buff with an eating disorder. My mom actually really likes To The Bone despite it not being true to any of my experiences at all. I mean fucking Starving In Suburbia was more accurate to my experiences than this, because at least it actually showed good representation of a boy with an eating disorder and how they can kill you. Its pro-ana site representation... not as good. The one thing I found accurate was that Ellen was enabled to get to as low of a weight as she did, her family didn't know how to deal with her ED. Also, if you didn't know - Lily Collins is Phil Collins' daughter! My mom was still trying to wrap her brain around that when I told her that. Also, I dislike Alex Sharp and much prefer Alex Lawther as a "compatible" actor. Also the calorie Asperger's joke doesn't make sense as someone with actual Asperger's. "Calorie OCD" would have made more sense, although no less insensitive.
6:52 i completely DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THAT SCENE BUT REWATCHING WHAT THE FUCK
This scene was so uncomfortable, Luke was such a annoying character I don’t understand why the writers made him so sexual, in reality a lot anorexic people lose their sx drive because of their low weight yet this man is obsessed to do it with her
Too late sis, I already watched it. I feel cursed
I watched it during a horrible fasting day
lol markiplier's twin brother
thats the last male actor i love who hasnt been exposed as a horrible human being
keanu 😭
YES. Yes, I agree with everything you said.
can u do a diet story on wooyoung (ateez)
You got it all on point (and it’s refreshing AF to hear someone speak without likeeeeee and literalllyyyy 🤦🏻🤦🏻I knew watching your other videos that you’d be intelligent and funny. You really ought to make more of these 💕) but the only thing that rand a bit weird to me is due to the way you phrased things, it sounded like you were calling the dad an asshole for breaking up with a woman (the mom) who turned out to be gay..that’s not an asshole move lol just needed to point that out 🤗🫣🫣
I gotta say your voice is very pretty~~~~~
Good review.
this flim makes me so angry you have NO IDEA
I remember the theory saying that "the patient has to get to the bottom to get better". This is such bullshit. And then again, as in many ed treatments, it basiclly says "The patient wanted it to happen, he/she/they need to get better on her/his/their own. Let her/him/them deal with their shit." Or just "Grow up", "grow a pair", "eat". It makes ed patient looks mean, unwilling, with no desire to get better, when in fact, they're in pain too and may actually have been through a lot in their life. I can't stand the fact that ed patients are dehumanized in such ways and presented as the villain, meanwhile a lot of people are actually to blame.
What about the body doubles? You can clearly see the actress isn’t that skinny in many scenes. The body double stuff is just weird. She even says in interviews she “at times” wears prosthetics. Wondering if her body double got any credit to the film because that’s what most people want to watch it for. Thinspo…unfortunately.
But this was written off the writer or directors true story so much that was portrayed was based on events that happened. My only point you don’t mention. Kinda surprised you didn’t know that.
You totally didn't get the outro scenes or her dying on the sand or even starting from her mom feeding her