First of all, High School is NOT intended as a social club where people stay in touch forever. High School is for learning so that you can branch off, move on and find your calling.
It's very unlikely that such a large group of people from High School would keep getting together long afterward, even when living in far flung states and having children and busy careers. There were so many tall thin white males with brown hair that it was difficult keeping track of who was who. It's also unlikely that such a group would contain whites, blacks, fit folks, obese folks and one closeted gay man. Usually High School groups of forever friends are a little homogenous,
The former fatty gal who lost all her weight with the Gastric Bypass wanted her group of High School friends to see her new bod, so she arranged a highly involved and inconvenient get together. But let me mention here that hospitals have counseling programs for their bariatric patients to help them deal with the emotional aspects of losing so much weight. Obviously Lucy did not partake of such a program. The MAIN emotional issue bariatric patients first run into is the RESENTMENT they feel when they start getting treated like a person of value by everyone; the general public, customer service representatives, strangers, neighbors, acquaintances, friends and family. You don't need a large group of High School friends to experience this - just step out your front door. The basic gist is "What was I before, chopped liver!'?" And "NOW you like me?!" After all, for the person stuck inside a very large body (often for reasons OTHER than eating too much, such as having Hypothyroidism, Fibromyalgia, Depression, Childhood Trauma, a Pituitary Tumor, a Tumor on their Adrenal Gland, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, to name a few), sees themselves as a human worthy of everything everyone else has. But they soon realize no one else sees them that way. So Lucy had a RIGHT to be angry at her friends, but she was being fake at first to lure them out into the woods where she could tell them off. Yet, they were ALL guilty of seeing her as "less than" all through High School, and she outed each of them. Interestingly, one of the thin girls from the old High School group had gained a lot of weight over the years. She was married to Richard, who died in the end. The overweight wife made an interesting observation, saying he wasn't ALWAYS a dick to her. We are left to surmise that he became a dick as soon as she gained weight. In response, she sought the missing love and respect as a human from the Coach at her kids' school. It was clear their relationship would become more serious now that her mean husband died. Wedding vows don't say that a man can mistreat his wife if her body shape ever changes. People's bodies are GOING to change as they age, even men's: pot bellies, hair loss, greying hair, wrinkles, flattening butt, moles/freckles, lost teeth, changes in posture, prostate problems, erection//performance problems, bad breath, etc. But most wives see all this as part of the process of growing older and things to overlook when they have been married a long time. After all, none of it has anything to do with the fact they are a human they made a commitment to long ago. These things are to be expected. But MEN often act like their wife gaining weight is a breaking of the marital commitment on the part of the wife - as if they promised never to age or fall victim to the ravages of having HIS children, or any number of hormonal, endocrinological or neurological conditions that tend to befall wives more than husbands - probably because of enduring DECADES of stress from picking up messes after their lazy and childish husbands.....
I found it sizeist and racist for the black politician to call his wife ghetto and fat. The movie should have shown HER finding her way to a new and better life without him, but they simply stopped showing much footage of her after she gave her wedding ring back to her husband in righteous anger. It was as if the producers of the show were in agreement with her husband's unfair assessment of her. That was disturbing.
A movie worth watching ONCE though. See if you can detect any bad qualities in yourself as you watch...
It's very unlikely that such a large group of people from High School would keep getting together long afterward, even when living in far flung states and having children and busy careers. There were so many tall thin white males with brown hair that it was difficult keeping track of who was who. It's also unlikely that such a group would contain whites, blacks, fit folks, obese folks and one closeted gay man. Usually High School groups of forever friends are a little homogenous,
The former fatty gal who lost all her weight with the Gastric Bypass wanted her group of High School friends to see her new bod, so she arranged a highly involved and inconvenient get together. But let me mention here that hospitals have counseling programs for their bariatric patients to help them deal with the emotional aspects of losing so much weight. Obviously Lucy did not partake of such a program. The MAIN emotional issue bariatric patients first run into is the RESENTMENT they feel when they start getting treated like a person of value by everyone; the general public, customer service representatives, strangers, neighbors, acquaintances, friends and family. You don't need a large group of High School friends to experience this - just step out your front door. The basic gist is "What was I before, chopped liver!'?" And "NOW you like me?!" After all, for the person stuck inside a very large body (often for reasons OTHER than eating too much, such as having Hypothyroidism, Fibromyalgia, Depression, Childhood Trauma, a Pituitary Tumor, a Tumor on their Adrenal Gland, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Insulin Resistance, to name a few), sees themselves as a human worthy of everything everyone else has. But they soon realize no one else sees them that way. So Lucy had a RIGHT to be angry at her friends, but she was being fake at first to lure them out into the woods where she could tell them off. Yet, they were ALL guilty of seeing her as "less than" all through High School, and she outed each of them. Interestingly, one of the thin girls from the old High School group had gained a lot of weight over the years. She was married to Richard, who died in the end. The overweight wife made an interesting observation, saying he wasn't ALWAYS a dick to her. We are left to surmise that he became a dick as soon as she gained weight. In response, she sought the missing love and respect as a human from the Coach at her kids' school. It was clear their relationship would become more serious now that her mean husband died. Wedding vows don't say that a man can mistreat his wife if her body shape ever changes. People's bodies are GOING to change as they age, even men's: pot bellies, hair loss, greying hair, wrinkles, flattening butt, moles/freckles, lost teeth, changes in posture, prostate problems, erection//performance problems, bad breath, etc. But most wives see all this as part of the process of growing older and things to overlook when they have been married a long time. After all, none of it has anything to do with the fact they are a human they made a commitment to long ago. These things are to be expected. But MEN often act like their wife gaining weight is a breaking of the marital commitment on the part of the wife - as if they promised never to age or fall victim to the ravages of having HIS children, or any number of hormonal, endocrinological or neurological conditions that tend to befall wives more than husbands - probably because of enduring DECADES of stress from picking up messes after their lazy and childish husbands.....
I found it sizeist and racist for the black politician to call his wife ghetto and fat. The movie should have shown HER finding her way to a new and better life without him, but they simply stopped showing much footage of her after she gave her wedding ring back to her husband in righteous anger. It was as if the producers of the show were in agreement with her husband's unfair assessment of her. That was disturbing.
A movie worth watching ONCE though. See if you can detect any bad qualities in yourself as you watch...