Bad Habits

Rating: 6.4/10

Genre: Drama

Overall value for money and time: 6.2/10

"Dark": 4/5

Cast: 3.5/5

Soundtrack: 3/5

Twist: 3/5

Story: 3.5/5

A dark drama about the eating habits of a single family, a rather diversified one. There's the mother who's obsessed with being thin, forcing her chubby-looking daughter to exact the same path as her; there's the architect husband, who's had it with his wife's constant nagging about him filling his stomach at night and "escaping" by engaging into an affair with a buxom female student; and there's matilda, a nun driven by faith and who believes that a food fast will have her prayers answered...

This movie is on a similar track as the dark movie "Requeim for a Dream", a movie about drug addiction, and Bad Habits being about eating disorders... both extremes. Seems like there's a lot food can do to us, too little of it will lead us to a critical level of "weakness", and too much of it "a social stigma". Though this movie has had it's "weird" moments... as there's some parts of it which I didn't understand; I'm not even sure whose daughter Matilda is... this movie has had it's fair share of twists of turns.

My definition of dark movies would be moody, thought-provoking and literally, dark cinematography most of the time... dullness of the setting and the colors. And this movie is one of the top few I've caught so far. Casting was excellent, convincing and engaging performances especially to the anorexic mum. There's an unexpected twist, make that 2 in the story and I liked how there's the irony of the line said by the chubby daughter at the end *spoilers ahead*

"Papa, do you think God will forgive all sins?"

The 2nd twist in the story was the first of it's kind, an ironic twist... you'll have to catch the movie to understand it, and appreciate it. Even though I might be singing much praises of this movie, generally, I'm not one too fond of dark movies. But it's definitely gonna be a movie to stick around in your head for a long time, "haunting" you whenever you start feasting on food again. You won't regret watching it, but don't be obsessed about watching it either...