Film Review Of Eating Disorders Movie Review

Improved Essays
Through the ups and downs of a strenuous six years, characters Dell and Kimberly illustrate how intimate couples act at various stages of a relationship – from the very first interaction to the very end. The movie I chose to watch is called Comet, and the basic premise is the typical boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy chases girl, boy gets girl again, boy loses girl for good storyline we’ve all seen a thousand and one times. But nonetheless, Dell and Kim meet while she is on a date with another man and, though she snubs all of his advances, Dell somehow convinces her to ditch her date and spend the night walking around a cemetery with him. (The date(s) are taking place in a cemetery where dozens of people have gathered to watch a meteor shower in Southern California.) This is how their whirlwind of a romance starts. Aside from that, the movie flashes back and forth between other scenes of their six year relationship – when they were long-distance for a while and she cheated on Dell with a guy who works for MTV, when they’d been broken up for over a year and run into each other on the street (and she’s dating the guy who works for MTV), when Dell is about to propose in Paris, when Kim invites him over, years later, tco her apartment and admits …show more content…
Suddenly, she can do much better than the constant up and down Dell is offering her. This makes Kim much less dependent on their relationship than Dell, who, without Kim can barely manage to eat or shower. Dell says multiple times in the movie that he should never have dated someone more attractive than him, because she will always be able to do better and she will always be able to leave him. Because Dell was so dependent on what he had with Kim, the power always fell into her lap. The entire premise of the movie is Dell constantly chasing this Dream Girl and the girl loving him but never loving him

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Eating Disorders Analysis

    • 1213 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Today in the United States there are alarming issues with eating disorders and major body modifications, most of which are derived from the pressures of the global media. Women should not be portrayed in such an unhealthy and abnormal way. For example, Calvin Klein’s idea of a women’s average size is size-00. Klein recently hired a size ten model named Myla Dalbesio. (Myla Dalbesio on Her New Calvin Klein Campaign and the Rise of the 'In-Between ' Model).…

    • 1213 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In “Our National Eating Disorder”, Michael Pollan compares the way Americans eat to that of the French’s. He opens up this article discussing the American fad of dieting and calorie counting. Discussing the “omnivore’s dilemma”, Pollan claims it is hard for Americans to decide what to eat due to the obtainibility of seasonal foods, also relating to processed products. The increase of these processed foods has helped the availability of altering their nutritional values tremendously. With this comes food marketing that can help shape the minds of Americans’ way of thinking, making them feel the need to be more conscious of what they eat.…

    • 181 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It helps characterizes Kim as pure and joyful at heart, even though it might not seem like that on the surface. This scene ties in because it implies that Kim’s feelings toward Edward are no longer disgust, but wonder and…

    • 685 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Some of the biggest obstacles for treatment of anorexia presented in the documentary, Thin, was honesty. It was hard for patients to accept they have to participate in eating in order to get better. They were very distress about taking the supplements, eating or enjoying any meal. As a result, they show regression by purging, in secret, the food they ate. In addition, some of the patience lie about taking their proper medication.…

    • 301 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    After emails sent and received from SPD supervisor, Brooke Emery and APD Hearing Manager there are two situations: 1. Regarding the meeting between SPD Manager/ caseworkers and LILA Managers/caseworkers, it is in hold until another meeting in central office between SPD, APD-Hearing and Policy Analysts take place in central office this Friday 04/28/17. We will wait for the decision. 2. Regarding Mr Book's Hearing Request, the Hearing Rep, Melanie Reese, she has made contact with Mr Book and let him know she will let him know the decision on 05/01/17 after the Friday's meeting is taken placed.…

    • 112 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tyler Perry Analysis

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages

    This movie begins with a couple Helen (Kimberly) and Charles. Mc Carter (Steve Harris) loving successfully in a nice home, Helen and Charles have been m married for 18- years. However, the couple romantic value has decreased over the years due to a mistress. Throughout this movie Halen meet Orlando who is physically attractive and later on proposes to her. At first Helen rejects Orlando given that she is still married to Charles.…

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    The National Eating Disorders Association, a nonprofit organization advocating and supporting those suffering from eating disorders, defines an eating disorder as a serious emotional and physical problem that can have life-threatening consequences and often experience extreme emotions, attitudes, and behaviors surrounding weight and food. Due to these factors, many who suffer from an eating disorder often find themselves in the care and treatment at clinics and hospitals. Thus, many hospitals have support groups for those who suffer from these disorders. The article “Group Analysis: Looking systematically at group development, structure, and function in an eating disorder program”, was written by Erin Benner, a social worker who ran this particular…

    • 2375 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Anorexia Nervosa Analysis

    • 808 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In the article, “ Pictures of Health: Medical Photography and the Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa,” the author, Erin O’Conner, sheds light on the harmful influences that photography had during the emergence of anorexia nervosa in the late 19th century, and the limiting effects it had on studying, understanding, and treating this unfortunate disease. While her piece as a whole presented various strong arguments as to how and why photography negatively affected and influenced the views of anorexia nervosa, what truly stood out to me the most was, by far, the highly overall gendered views that the late 19th century had on not only anorexia nervosa, but also on women’s health as a whole. For me, when I think of an unhealthy woman, I don’t normally…

    • 808 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    What is an eating disorder? Parallelism: The Parallelism is in the four paragraph first line (Psychological, emotional, and physical problems). Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. (http://literarydevices.net/parallelism/)…

    • 1500 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I stumbled upon Ana’s path, July 27th, 2012. “Come darling, I have a secret to spill. Here is a bargain, in trade for your will. Do what I tell you and you will succeed, in trade of you giving your life to me. Yes!…

    • 520 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Unit Two focuses on dieting and health. Within this unit's readings, there are several articles dealing with the different ways dieting habits and different body types effect the image of women in today's culture. From the cause and effect of eating disorders to the changes in female bodybuilding competitions, these articles show how the media's portrayal of body image affects individuals, particularly women in this case. The article, Sublime Hunger: A Consideration of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty, starts with a scenario of an individual waking up in the morning and immediately flushing out their system with laxatives.…

    • 1030 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As a Denver Center for International Studies junior, I developed two passages. A passage is either a fifteen-page research essay or an activity about the topic of your choice. I wrote a twenty two-page essay about eating disorders for my first written passage. Most eating disorders develop because our society sets this ideal way to be beautiful.…

    • 643 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Beside these ads are comments posted regarding the amazing and fantastic appearance of these women. It is photographs such as these that give women the impression that unless they are 5’8 and weigh 100 pounds they are somehow fat and ugly. Models are a great example because they are encouraged to stay at an unhealthy weight. When a designer has new clothes sewn, there is as little material as possible used until after a showing of the new designs. The models wearing these clothes need to be a small size in order to fit into them.…

    • 1166 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Thin Introduction When I watched the Thin documentary going into it I had some sort of knowledge as to what might happen. The women who had to go through such a traumatic period in their lives. Will go through any lengths, either to maintain their skinny weight or lose more. I truly felt bad for not only the women, but the families who had to watch their love ones suffer.…

    • 1716 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Musallam Almashali Dr. William L. Blizek RELIGION AND FILM December 4, 2017 Eat Pray Love Description: Hinduism is the religion of the major population in both Nepal and India, which is considered the set of religious beliefs, religious traditions, and a way of living. It has no single scripture, no single founders, and no unified set of teachings which make Hinduism different from other religion (Senker n.p.). There are instances wherein this religion is considered the oldest living religion in the world. Since it is one of the prominent and largest religions throughout the world, application and depiction of Hinduism in modern and popular culture is an ordinary thing.…

    • 1261 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays