The Body Fights Back

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The Body Fights Back

2020

1h 47m

Documentary

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The Body Fights Back is a feature documentary about five people navigating the paradoxes of diet culture. While promises of happiness, desirability and perfection are irresistible, joy and contentment remain out of reach. Personal stories from vastly different backgrounds quickly merge into a shockingly similar experience of battling one's body. Self-starvation and compulsive exercise bring temporary satisfaction, only to be replaced with binging and purging soon after. Surprisingly, none of it has much to do with food. Featuring exclusive footage from London's contemporary anti-diet movement and fascinating personal archives, the film offers a unique insight into the complexity of eating disorders, body image struggles and most importantly, the socio-economic realities of health.

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

It's a blistering indictment of the harm caused by diet culture ... This movie does not promote obesity or unhealthy eating habits. Instead, it examines what causes people to believe the myth that being thin automatically equals happiness.

Aug 3, 2021

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Amyana Bartley

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The Body Fights Back is an effective, all encompassing overview of the adverse, repugnant repercussions caused by the toxic, fat phobic diet and food industry.

Aug 2, 2021

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

Honest, compassionate, and very necessary, this is a provocation, a challenge to our individual and cultural preconceived notions about and neurotic relationships to food, weight, and body image.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 23, 2021

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

Although watching films about eating can be difficult if you've struggled with disordered eating yourself, many people will find that this film provides a perspective and breadth of understanding that really helps to turn things around.

Rated: 4.55

Jul 19, 2021

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

...the whole might best be taken as just one counterbalancing perspective on the endlessly complex terrains of body, self, and society.

Jul 16, 2021

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Joel Fisher

Battle Royale With Cheese

The Body Fight Back may be good for those who are feeling low and want to reassure themselves that they are beautiful.

Jul 14, 2021

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The Body Fights Back is a feature documentary about five people navigating the paradoxes of diet culture. While promises of happiness, desirability and perfection are irresistible, joy and contentment remain out of reach. Personal stories from vastly different backgrounds quickly merge into a shockingly similar experience of battling one's body. Self-starvation and compulsive exercise bring temporary satisfaction, only to be replaced with binging and purging soon after. Surprisingly, none of it has much to do with food. Featuring exclusive footage from London's contemporary anti-diet movement and fascinating personal archives, the film offers a unique insight into the complexity of eating disorders, body image struggles and most importantly, the socio-economic realities of health.

Director: Marian Võsumets
Producer: Marian Võsumets
Screenwriter: Marian Võsumets
Production Co: Lola Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 13, 2021
Runtime: 1h 47m

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