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Perfect Illusions

86 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Eating disorders kill more people than any other mental illness, and this film follows several young American women fighting them while the people around them keep insisting everything looks fine. Suni is sixteen and in the early stages of bulimia. Marya Hornbacher, author of the memoir "Wasted," describes fifteen years cycling through anorexia and bulimia that started in adolescence. Annie developed bulimia during a bout of clinical depression in high school. Their accounts are intercut with diary excerpts from Anna Westin, who died of anorexia, her own words read over footage that makes the gap between her private thoughts and her outward composure plain. Parents appear too, describing the fear and helplessness of watching a daughter starve or purge in secret, and the guilt that follows when they missed the signs. The film stays close to these individual stories rather than building a broader statistical case, treating the disorders as something hidden inside ordinary-looking lives rather than a visible crisis.