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

[groovesinorbit]

Well said, fflo! How can this film be anything other than a stunt, if the underlying issues such as class (it is indeed the forbidden issue) and corporate greed aren't brought up?

Of course, that means you would have made this movie more in the vein of that (ahem) "lardass" Michael Moore methinks.

Ahem.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, at least to some extent. (I have my qualms about Michael, but they're either more subtlely aesthetic or refine'dly political.)

Super Size, to clarify, DID bring up corporate greed, even poking fun at it for a few minutes. But even some of that was fat-phobic. And, besides, what kind of technique is mere random fun-poking for any serious subject of a scathing documentary?

[groovesinorbit]

And, besides, what kind of technique is mere random fun-poking for any serious subject of a scathing documentary?

Not a very good one.