Thinner Film Analysis

In the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel, Thinner is a story that follows an obese, defense attorney that from the opening of the film is displaying characteristics of the typical American losing weight. He steps on the scale, which reads almost three hundred pounds, then he accepts a homemade smoothie from his supportive wife as she tracks his weight loss on their home computer. When she mentions that his weight loss has not changed over the past few weeks he responds with a justification many American’s tell themselves while on diets, that these things take time. The lawyer, Billy Halleck, proceeds to go to court where he gets a guilty mob boss cleared of attempted murder charges.
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At first, Billy remains clueless as he begins to drop weight at an impossible rate, this causes elation as he is able to binge on food throughout the entire movie while still shedding the pounds. This idea of losing weight while purging on all the best tasting worst kinds of foods is, in my opinion, a representation of the true American dream. How many women have wished that they could just have a little tapeworm for a bit to get beach body ready? I have read many reactions to the movie, from women especially, about how they watched this movie enviously. They wished that they could eat whatever they wanted and still lose weight even knowing how the story ends. Jumping to the end, Billy cuts his hand into a strawberry pie and is told the only way to get rid of the curse is to pass it onto someone else. He has no problems, being of weak moral character, to begin with, planning on passing the curse to his wife whom he has found out has been cheating on him. Be that as it may, his innocent daughter actually ends up eating the pie and the story ends with him knowing that his greed for food and revenge will save his life just in time for him to watch his daughter dig her own grave with a fork … or perhaps it was a