Review of Fat Girl

This film suffers from the skewed view of human nature that infects much of European film, and indeed western culture. The sisters in this film are reduced to their sexual natures. We view them only through their sexual desires, the other aspects of their personalities are glossed over and subsumed into these sexual desires. Many have stated that this film is real, but I have to disagree. I do not think that teenagers are solely the selfish, sexualized beings depicted here. A few are, and their hormones are certainly raging, but they cannot be reduced to their sexuality. This film depicts teenagers the way many western intellectual elites want them to be, not the way they really are. The sisters' natures are one-dimensional.

I Anais' actions and reactions at the end of the film to be totally unrealistic. I cannot imagine a 12 year old girl behaving that way in that situation.