unreleased rant diluted by ennui; nuts at work; H. back in town

[fflo]

Started this week already behind here at work---and that may be part of the reason I haven't gotten around to raging against the piece-o'-crap Super Size Me. Though even by the end of the film Sunday night my pique had already largely subsided. It did most everything fat-phobic I'd feared it would do (and a little I hadn't anticipated), plus its "experiment" was badly executed (and sans even pseudo-scientific control). But I'd have had a personal antipathy for the guy even if he hadn't pissed me off with the moviemaking, just from his classic redneck moustache style and proudly-displayed fraternity paddle. So maybe I'll spare ya'll the invective about the dozens of decapitated "anonymous" bodies demonstrating fatness, and the horrid sequence surrounding one guy's stomach-mutilation surgery, and other vile bile of that ilk.

Had a phone message from H., who is back in town. Of course that comes during a crazy busy week for me.

Comments

Re: the lividity

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Yep---pijeanf, which is pronounced like "pigeon 'f'," was my roommate as a freshman in college. (Okay to "out" us thus, PiJ?)

I'm with you about the cheesy premise for the jackass's movie, by the way, maffick. The temptation to go see it was that it seemed he might address issues---as he DID, to a small extent and in an amateurish way---of corporate profit from addicting the people, and placing profits over nutrition with terribly low standards for the "quality" of the food, and maybe even the ways which the animals that provide some of the "food product" are kept/treated. (Secretly I think I want to be persuaded to vegetarianism; it's just still trumped for me by issues of freedom to eat whatever the hell I want, thank you very much.) Not to mention issues of cultural/economic imperalism (once again, only vaguely touched on in the film).

Of course, as it turned out, his film went for cheap "humor" in fat-bashing. And in doing so, as well as in presenting an oversimplified advocation (of sorts) of "weight loss surgery," it contributed to the hostile, demonizing atmosphere fat people face in this culture.

He also did a sloppy job with its central schtick---e.g., the guy stopped getting any exercise, too, while he ate only the McDonald's for a month, usually choosing double quarter pounder meals and uber-Mickie-D's options---thus both exaggerating and [thereby] undercutting his point.

Yes, all in all, a piece of crap. And now I've gotten some of the rant out of me after all!

Re: the lividity

[groovesinorbit]

(Okay to "out" us thus, PiJ?)

No problem.