Argumentative Paper on the Documentary “THIN”



Argumentative Paper on the Documentary “THIN”

Introduction

The documentary film of 2006, 'Thin', telecasted by HBO was a great endeavor by the director Lauren Greenfield. This documentary film is basically about the discovery of 'The Renfrew Venter' in Coconut Creek of Florida, which is a residential facility based on 40-beds especially established for treating the women who are going through various sorts of eating disorders. Mostly, the documentary film focuses on four different women with anorexia bulimia or anorexia nervosa, and also on their efforts which they do for being recovered from such disorders. It distributed on November 14th, 2006 on the HBO Channel. Originally, Thin is the showpiece of a complicated and many-faceted movement, inclusive of a website, travelling exhibition of the work of Greenfield, and a companion book, and was intended for exploring concerns that are contiguous to eating disorders and body image. The documentary film “Thin” may perhaps regard as 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, for especially a woman, a stimulating allegory regarding the extermination of individual spirits by the institutions of America.

The purpose of this paper is to make clear and strong arguments regarding the role that is played by the body image in determining various types of eating disorders, staff/patient dynamics, the mythical norm, and the medical aspects of the bodies of women, etc.

Discussion

The HBO production 'Thin', is basically a documentary by a detached and compassionate photographer, but it is not a novel by an irritated polemicist, rather it is a viewpoint that is aggressive-passive than the point of view of Ken Kesey. The unnerved hands of the filmmaker, Lauren move towards anyway for clearly treating the patients with anorexia at the Florida's Renfrew Center that is one of the luxurious clinics of eating disorders in the country.

The moving documentary 'Thin' provides a glimpse to outsiders regarding the world with the eating disorder of Anorexia. It gives a good insight about the complexity of this disorder that is not just related to the concerns of self-esteem and body image, but also with the mental health problems. While I was watching this film, I was shocked and revolted at the extents to which such women would set out to be thinner. I have noticed diets in my life that are gone crooked, but I have not seen dieting to such extents. After watching this documentary, I have drawn closer to a more specific realization that eating disorders, anorexia, and bulimia are faraway than a body image that is skewed, and also an immense mental state. Being an American woman, it astonishes me that how a girl of merely 86 pounds can still call herself truthfully as fat and be worried and concerned all the time about her weight regardless of having just bones and skin on her body.

The filmmaking of the documentary 'Thin' was basically a continuance of the conceptions that are about body image and the ways in which the body of a female is taken ...