Up To Speed
A couple of back posts are now up, along with another batch of approved comments. And now that it's all over I can stop being coy and admit that I was in Paris for the week, hence the sporadic internet access. I was over there as a surprise for my best friend, who was being proposed to by his partner, so I had to keep it a big secret. So anyway now I'm back, and all the posts from the past week are up. And the proposal went great!
On the plane ride home I saw In Her Shoes finally. And as a person with a younger sister, I found the movie very well done and touching. But all the references to the character being fat had no impact at all since Toni Collette wasn't even "movie fat"! She was thin! The film would have had so much more resonance (the "Fat Pig" insult, the "who would want to marry me, I'm disgusting" line, etc.) if SHE HAD ACTUALLY BEEN OVERWEIGHT. Even a tiny bit overweight! Argh!
Anyway I thought of you guys immediately and had to share my irritation. I bet the book is great, though.
On the plane ride home I saw In Her Shoes finally. And as a person with a younger sister, I found the movie very well done and touching. But all the references to the character being fat had no impact at all since Toni Collette wasn't even "movie fat"! She was thin! The film would have had so much more resonance (the "Fat Pig" insult, the "who would want to marry me, I'm disgusting" line, etc.) if SHE HAD ACTUALLY BEEN OVERWEIGHT. Even a tiny bit overweight! Argh!
Anyway I thought of you guys immediately and had to share my irritation. I bet the book is great, though.
posted by mo pie at 11:21 AM
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The book is great. I haven't even been to see the movie - and I said I was going to go see it, and I love all three actresses in the lead parts - because I heard that they had distorted Rose's character pretty significantly from the book in that regard.
That said, IMO, in this lovely American society, all of us from Hollywood Fat to the surgeons' favorite "morbidly obese", can be prone to body dysmorphism. I work in the industry, and the difference between the way people look on the screen and in real life is SEVERE. As a nation, as a DIRECT RESULT of media distortion, we've basically been globally fooled as to what constitutes "normal" body size.
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