This is a Mexican film about eating disorders. Actually, it's mostly a movie about people who need to eat more. It centers on a family where the mother, who is clearly anorexic, keeps trying to force her paunchy daughter to loose weight before her first communion. The mother's tactics are abusive and only cause her daughter to gain weight (see, some people eat when they get depressed). Meanwhile, the father decides that he's sick of his skinny bitch wife and starts having an affair with a thick girl who's more fun in bed. At first I thought that was pretty awesome but then I realized his time would probably be better spent getting his psycho wife committed and encouraging his little girl to have a healthy relationship with food. Also, there was a nun who wouldn't eat because that made her see Jesus. That part was a little weird.
This documentary about gangsters from London's East End is directed by the daughter of one of the subjects. It's a really interesting look at the criminal underworld and, although the film examines both the good and bad aspects of these men, it still seems biased in their favor. The men admit to stealing and violence and even imply that they've murdered people but they claim that they only did these things to "bad guys". I doubt that this is true of all their victims but, even so, how were the "bad guys" different from them? Didn't they have families too? There's also a part where the gangsters talk about prison and what they do to child molesters. I know it's nothing new that criminals hate pedophiles (and I mean hate) but I'd be interested to learn a little bit about criminal psychology. To me it seems like gangsters only feel that strongly about child molesters because they're the only ones that somebody who kills for money can look down on. Oh, this movie also includes a section where the guys try to explain cockney rhyming slang. Man, I don't think I'll ever understand how that works.
Before this film even started, I used my lightning-quick reflexes to win a Danger After Dark T-shirt plus two DVDs of movies I saw at previous festivals. The first one is Evil, Greece's first zombie film. I remember it being incredibly violent with a ridiculous amount of blood. The other one, The Living and the Dead, was much more suspenseful and, if I recall, disturbing. Anyway, the film at hand was a ghost story. At least, I expected it to be a ghost story but it wound up being three interlocking ghost stories. This was really confusing for me because the ghosts didn't really have anything to do with each other but the people being terrorized were all connected. It's a really complicated plot that involves many mysteries and I really wish that they'd stuck to one story. I had a lot of trouble following what was going on and telling the characters apart. It's not that I think all Asian people look alike. It's just that I think all Korean people look alike. Oh well, at least there were some good scares. Including a scene where one guy sneaks up behind another guy and yells "Boo!". So simple, yet so effective.
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