Little Miss Perfect

This movie manages to create the atmosphere in which a young girl tries to cope with the realities of life. The scenes of the movie are exaggerated so the viewer might empathize with Anabelle and get mad about her decisions: "Why would she do that? It doesn't help, it just makes her weaker!"

The story does not expand on how Anabelle got hooked into this world, but it seems to be the next step in controlling something, when everything falls out of her control. The pressures of appearing perfect take a great toll on this character and I found the actress did justice to the role.

I've not seen every movie about eating disorders, but I found this one to be interesting enough to see it twice in the span of one year. It nearly touches the surface on awareness, but I think it's well done and suitable for most audiences, since it does not go deep into the disorder hole.

"I'm not dumb enough to starve myself and think that's going to bring my mommy back, or something!"

Eating disorders are controversial. A plot about good girl choosing not to eat than talk about her feelings disappoints in raising the stereotype of eating disorders, but succeeds to show the frustration of someone without an eating disorder who must bear to watch a loved one (or peer) who does. Compelling cinematography, given that our main character is a young, bright, and well-off girl enduring her creeping doom.

The acting was awful, but that could have been excused considering the low budget if the movie was actually good. It wasn't. It was filled with all the tired old clichés, such as:

• Upper-class white girl with distant parents and a perfectionist nature. - Looks at thinspo once and suddenly becomes anorexic. - Barely eats for weeks and never binges. - Hallucinates 'ana', the personification of her eating disorder. - Is anorexic for just a few months then recovers.

It's just not realistic. The use of those clichés only further skews society's view of eating disorders, which is harmful to those who actually suffer.

I give it two stars for being kind of entertaining.

OK, this film maybe a depiction of a TINY fraction of one or two people people but its very overused and generic, and nowhere near gives the disorder the complexity it deserves. I'm sorry but this is another cliché film - that doesn't go deep enough to raise real awareness - I mean please you don't see thinspo twice and suddenly put down your pop tart, two, these parents are over dramatised cliché of neglectful/self-important, like the other 8 or so ed films I've seen. There is way more going on in a sufferers head than the superficial stuff shown here. I really really don't know how this got nominated and won stuff - other than because it was judged by people who know little about the reality of the disorder. If I wanted someone to understand an eating disorder I would tell them to run from this film. My short maybe small budget and not as large scale but its done a hell of a better job than this in it's feedback - no wonder mental health awareness is all wonky. Either make the awareness film accurately and properly or not at all.

Just to let you know that this movie includes pro ana, bulimia and self harm There were some creepy scenes. It did have some old clichés, such as: Upper-class girl with distant parents and a perfectionist nature. and She Looks at thinspo once and suddenly becomes anorexic. I mean you don't see thinspo once and suddenly put down your pop tart, and things like not really eating for like a week and never binges, that's just not realistic and Is anorexic for just a few months then recovers, its not as easy as that. The fact the she's cured so easily is really bad for people who are watching the Movie for awareness of the disorder. Most people with eating disorders like this usually go their whole lives suffering from it.

The Movie is probably a lot more harmful than helpful. The use of those clichés only furthers society's view of eating disorders, which is also harmful to those who actually suffer from them. I really wished that the writer had done a better job of researching stuff. There is hardly any Movies that talk about eating disorders and tells the truth about them.

I would of liked more character development, There were plot holes - like Belle's mom who disappears with no explanation or resolution, the undeveloped supporting characters are just a few of the issues with the writing. I didn't like that we didn't see much of the Belle's parents either.

I really liked the Movie that was used, In this Movie we have actors the same age as the roles they are playing, and not 18 year old playing 14 year old. I think the acting was really good with what they had to work with.