The Skinny on Thin

Thin, a movie filmed at the Renfrew Center, follows four women in their battle with eating disorders.

By Jessica Clark

At first, it's hard to know who to identify with in Thin, filmed over six months at the Renfrew Center, a residential facility devoted to treating eating disorders in southern Florida. Sallow and bony, the patients cry over cupcakes and denounce each new ounce of [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    The idea of “hunger artists amoung us” is interesting…

    but the documentary you describe was clearly exploitive, and I am appaled at the mental health facilties who condone this sort of intrusion into their milieu.

    I’m guessing, in a world where the wealth is shared in some fashion that makes sense,

    the freaking filmmakers who sold this tripe to HBO ,and the treatment facility, would’ve continued to treat some of the girls without charge…simply because they were

    EXPLOITING

    their story.

    None of these uneaten lunches are free…
    All this stuff is paid for, in advance….you just need to examine who’s paying for it.

    And who benefits.


    But recovered people are never as interesting as those in the throes, eh? And the camera always adds 10 pounds too…..

    United States Posted by minerva_jones on Jan 1, 2007 at 1:34 AM
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