Anyone Seen Thin?

[airplane787]

here u can buy this documentary:

http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Lauren-Greenfield/dp/B000HEVZA8



here is few clips from the documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-N2Cv52gB8

here is laurens site:

http://www.laurengreenfield.com/


if u watched it what did u think of this documentary?
did u like it?

[airplane787]

someone wrote for me:

HBO on November 14th at 9pm

so dont forget it will be on tv soon...!!!

im sad cause i dont have this channel...
but u that has it enjoyyyyy

[airplane787]

http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/4496/thinarticle1ek4.jpg

a article about this...

[Pepperjack]

Personally, I thought it was p.c. and pretencious, although that sounds redundant, I watched the clips and felt the film makers was a bit repulsive, thinking that a docu about a $1,500-a-day *clinic* made during the height of the anti-Proana movement it's very fashionable right now, anorexia is and this is bound to get her some attention, I"m sure she'll pat herself on the back and tell herself she did it for the girls, for womanhood, for the emotionally ill I find her to be nothing more than another film-grant parasite and the clip showing well-off teens wearing jewerly and trendy cloths with cutesy faces and pretty hairstyles, make-up just right, at healthy weights squealing and sobbing in front of the camera that one girl sounded constipated if she had squeezed out those tears any harder she would have sterilized herself, the docu is an insult to the women and girls that truly suffer without help, without money, without p.c. female *filmmakers* flying about, wringing their hands, waving a flag how many times on that front page is something concerning money mentioned? A little too many how greedy, this sucks, sorry airplane, I'm not mad at you. Yours truly Pepperjack.

[abigailjade]

Do you think it's too soon to pirate it?

[lovetodance]

i really want to watch this.......but i dont think i can risk buyin it from amazon coz of my parents! duz anyone no if its gonna come on tv in england? xxx

[sxydaniella]

i might try and download it, or buy it.
i dont know if it will be on the tv in the uk.

[farrenfivefeet]

i really liked the documentary. i cried the entire time. their pain were incredibly visible. i thought perhaps they could've chosen different girls -- i think jennifer would've been a tad more interesting. i thought it was an honest portrayal--- especially in the end where most of the girls didn't do well after their treatment. it shows that it can't be just solved in 2 months. that it's a lifetime struggle. i liked it.

[lovetodance]

for any of u in the uk - in marie claire there is an extract from thin n it says it is gonna be broadcast on channel 4.....doesnt say when tho!! ok have just gone onto channel 4 website aaand it says its gonna be shown on more4 next year. xxx

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[lovetodance]

does anyone no why the bacground for my traker is black? its rly buggin me!! xx

[headspin]

Yeah, i watched the whole documentary on youtube before they decided to take it off. (Not all of it, but most.)
obviously got me sad
meh

[sxydaniella]

its back on youtube ive been watching it everyday.

[sxydaniella]

its going to be on more4 tomorrow (monday) at 9pm.

[Jiinxx]

i didn't like the doc. i mean, i saw myself in everyone in there, which is pretty sad.. but it felt like they missed a whole lot of the Actual Eating Disorder. and, if i wouldn't be suffering from an ED, I don't think that doc. would have tought me anything really. they skipped the whole "beginning" part. you know, in the early days of anorexia when you skip out on lunch and start to cut down on your calorie intake. guess they just wanted to show us anorexic that if we decide to go in to recovery, it's just gonna hurt even more than the actual "sick" days. that's atleast how I saw it..

[Tenuis]

I have seen it on YouTube, some parts more than once.
The one feeling I can't get rid of it that Renfrew seemed more like a prison than a shelter to me.
I mean, I can understand that they have to check live functions in the morning because they don't want their patients to die and have to have a look at the progress.
But I always felt that there are many stiff rules and punishments when crossing the rules and as if the ED patients there are more punished for being ED than helped.
I liked the single therapy sessions with the male therapist but whenever they were in the "community session" and there were sentences such as "the community is only as healthy and strong as their members are" I always felt...threatened and if there is pressure put on the patients by expectations and being called upon doing/thinking this and that.

I don't know about you. Though I don't have any clue about therapy nor any experience I guess a clear shedule is good for recovery but I often had the impression that nobody was really able to help warmly by supporting and somehow mentally "hugging" the patients but that they were only helped by rules and expectations and stiff plans and whatnot.
Nobody was allowed only one bad step. When there was the misunderstanding about half a burger or so, one of the girls was totally upset that she should have been it who threw it away and said mean things. Nobody was able to help her cope with the anger, only few tried to calm her, most just told her to shut up and not talk in this way.
And the apology of the nutritionist didn't seem very convincing either.
I don't know...I just...it all felt so cold to me.

I hope I was able to express what I mean, it's not easy for me to get a grip on my feelings concerning that docu.

Am I the only one having this impression?