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The Man Who Ate Himself to Death
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The Man Who Ate Himself to Death

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Ricky Naputi weighs over 700 pounds and cannot leave his bed. The film follows his life and that of his family as food addiction has narrowed his world down to a single room, tracking daily routines of eating, caretaking, and medical crisis that built up over years. Interviews with Naputi, relatives, and medical staff lay out how the habit formed, what it costs the people around him, and what options remain once a body has been pushed this far past normal limits. The camera does not look away from the physical reality of his condition or the strain on the family members who feed and clean him, and the film uses his case to ask a wider question about compulsive eating as a genuine addiction rather than a simple failure of willpower. It ends without a tidy resolution, leaving Naputi's prognosis as uncertain as it was when the cameras arrived.