Tuesday, August 12, 2008

bad habits.

Story of a family with diverse eating disorders. Their faith, love and vanity are all put to the test at the dining room table.
Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. Secretly she begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood.
Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion.
At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope any more with his wife's bones sticking into him in more intimate moments. He discovers love thanks to a cuddly female student fascinated with good food.

The film is a cruel, yet realistic view over everything that surrounds food in the modern society. Through Linda and Elena, we see the false perspective for losing weight, as well with the obsession of society for being thin, since that's the ideal. Not for nothing Elena says to her friend "La prefiero muerta que gorda", (I prefer her dead than fat).
Well Malos hábitos, over everything. Dark, creepy, and yet so true.

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