Review of Fat Girl (2001) by Private U — 12 Aug 2008

I'm not easily upset or disturbed by movies. Fat Girl really, really upset me. I hated this movie on such a visceral level, that I felt the need to call people after I saw it and tell them to avoid it all costs.

However, in retrospect, I was just mad that I was manipulated. Fat Girl is a manipulating movie, and unfortunately not a particularly good movie. The intriguing narrative of the first three quarters of the movie is barely serviced by the out-of-nowhere shock ending.

Instead of answering the hard questions the film poses through-out about self-esteem, it leaves them all unanswered for a moronic and disgusting statement on the potential adolescent confusion of what exactly to be loved is.