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Morgan Spurlock
(Tribeca Film Festival)
Our vices are what make us human, but they're also what push the limit of our humanity —and sometimes make us grotesque.
The journey to the grotesque is what documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is after in his new series, "7 Deadly Sins," which debuts on Showtime today.
In it, Spurlock travels the country to explore the roads our vices can take us down at their most extreme. The first episode, which focuses on gluttony, follows a 700-pound woman whose sexual identity is tied to her love of food. Later episodes explore envy through men who like dressing up in rubberized suits that approximate a woman’s body, and more.
The journey to the grotesque is what documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is after in his new series, "7 Deadly Sins," which debuts on Showtime today.
In it, Spurlock travels the country to explore the roads our vices can take us down at their most extreme. The first episode, which focuses on gluttony, follows a 700-pound woman whose sexual identity is tied to her love of food. Later episodes explore envy through men who like dressing up in rubberized suits that approximate a woman’s body, and more.
Couldnt agree more with Mr. Spurlock, in that the US is drunk on its pursuit of the 7 vices/sins. Doesn't matter which one, or any combo of...we are all seriously guilty of them.
Personally, its gluttony in the form of overeating and excessive consumption of what amounts to cheap consumer goods - just to have them (which I guess includes lust and envy) that most bother and anger me about others around me. Food gluttons are in my mind the worst of the lot. As its most visible to others, affects others (health care costs, sitting in a public space next to the overweight, like a plane, bus, train, etc) and basically repulses me.
I in no way believe that very overweight people feel good about it, no matter what they say, or how much they present a "fat and proud" face to the world. All I see are sad people who essentially dislike themselves so much they will willingly and with gusto make themselves sick and deformed. then convincing themselves that they are attractive and (oh God!) "sexy" because some others who might have a chubby-fetish. (Is that really a good thing? To attract fetishists?)
In a way, I think gluttony is the granddaddy and precursor to all the others. If your prone to gluttony, you will easily fall into the others...
Shame on The Takeaway, shame on Morgan Spurlock. Fat people are people, first and foremost. Some are healthy, some are not. Some eat a lot, some eat very little. Some eat junk food, some have a "clean" diet any Whole Foods shopper would envy. Just like people with smaller bodies! Laughing at bigger-bodied people and painting them with ugly stereotypes is small-minded and cruel.