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Little Miss Perfect (2016)
A movie with no understanding of eating disorders
The basic plot of this movie could have been something, I will give it that. However, this movie has no character development and it portrays eating disorders as something that happens overnight, with nothing leading up to it. The main character is a girl who is successful in school with great grades, and as soon as her mother leaves she stumbles across a tumblr account promoting anorexia. Suddenly, she develops an eating disorder. This is such a basic and naive outlook that minimizes how complicated eating disorders are. As the movie progresses, every single character loses any amount of integrity that they have and becomes worse. The turning point of this movie is incredibly ridiculous, the main character suddenly recovers because she discovers that it was her "friend" leading her into an eating disorder? One, this is cliche, and two, this isn't how eating disorders work!! You don't become anorexic because someone told you to and stop once you discover who the person was. This movie could have been something, but they failed in ever aspect and clearly did no real research on anorexia before writing the script