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Thinspiration (2014)
Honestly terrible, false representation
TLDR: the whole movie is a gross depiction of what some movie writer imagined when they read a brochure about what Ana is. An outsiders perspective of what they think Ana is and what causes it but nothing deeper than that-Ana is an acute illness, easily caught, caused by pro Ana sites and nothing more according to this movie.
If you want real watch To the Bone.
Spoilers below********************
This is a terrible representation of an eating disorder. It's unrealistic-it's heavily heavily glamourized and the depiction is just aggressively unreal. Anyone that's had an eating disorder-especially anyone with ednos, orthorexia, or just dealt with Ana in general, would actually be annoyed with this movie. It's beyond unrealistic, it's the furthest thing from it, and it's so doctored up to make Ana look like you just wake up and decide to have it and you just start off with drastic behavior and that's so far from the truth.
It doesn't even show the real, real causes of Ana which is shameful because the writer could have explored so much more than surface deep and even gave themselves the opportunity to do so but instead were lazy-I mean many dancers have ed because of how terrible the atmosphere is, and this applies to many sports like ice skating, gymnastics and track/field.
It's estimated that 47% of elite athletes that identify as female suffer from disordered eating and for those that identify as male it's 33%.
No one gets on a pro-Ana site or tumblr(as the movie so badly and blatantly showed) and just decides to cut down to 500 calories a day and the community isn't a bunch of eating disordered people trashing each other to reach goal weights-most would do anything to prevent another person from developing the same disorder and just so happen to let their tricks to their illness slip. The voice of Ana isn't someone on one of these sites looking to suffer with someone and it should have never been portrayed as such. The voice of Ana is a culmination of every terrible thing that's been said to you but internalized. The evil isn't the pro ana community-it's you fighting yourself.
Also, the way the actor behaves would tip off anyone looking to identify an eating disorder even if they have no knowledge of how to look for one.