“It’s a good feeling to know that the people who vote for this are people who actually make movies and love movies, so they’re responding to it based on the product,” Dawson tells. “I think we’re just happy that it has connected to as many people as it has — and even how it’s been doing at the box office vis-à-vis some of the other adult dramas this year.
After its premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival — where Fraser was moved to tears during the six-minute ovation that followed the screening — the film was criticized for its portrayal of people affected by obesity and was accused of perpetuating anti-fat stereotypes.
The movie does not criticise people who are overweight it is the story of a man with an eating disorder that is killing him. Just as Leaving Las Vegas is not critical of people who drink a lot, it is a story about a man drinking himself to death.
If we are to honest, then lets stop putting HFCS into American food...it has zero value and is stored as fat by default and is difficult to get rid of.