![]() ![]() The truth is To the Bone is not a good movie about anorexia. To the Bone has been wildly praised since it debuted at Sundance in January, and I can only assume this is because critics get weirdly overexcited when actors undergo physical transformations. Ellen and her fellow patients are styled in the universally recognised signifiers of crazy-but-sexy young women Given how thin female actors now have to be just to look “slim”, your heart breaks at the thought of how much weight she must have lost to look so painfully ill. How to depict a mental illness that – unlike, say, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder – has such a well-known and hard-to-fake physical manifestation? To the Bone’s writer-director, Marti Noxon – who based the movie on her own experiences with the illness – got around this by getting Collins, who has spoken about her own struggles with eating disorders, to lose an astonishing amount of weight so that she looks credibly anorexic on screen. ![]() It’s not easy to make a good movie about anorexia, which is why almost – almost – none exist. ![]()
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