ON PAPER, Hungry Hearts scratches out as an intriguing domestic-horror situation: New mom Mina (Alba Rohrwacher), freaked out about the medical establishment, goes overboard trying to keep her baby “pure.” Pretty soon she’s banning cellphones and refusing to feed him food she hasn’t grown herself. Daddy Jude (Adam Driver) is torn between respecting his wife and protecting his kid. Sure. Sounds like a dramatic reading of the Shit Portland Mamas Say Tumblr.
But Hungry Hearts places too much faith in its own aesthetic, the operating terms of which are “moody” and “claustrophobic.” For the viewer, this translates to “tedious,” particularly in the almost complete absence of character backstory. Why is Jude, ostensibly an engineer, deferring to Mina’s gibberish parenting ideas? (It’s also pretty tough to fathom why Jude doesn’t take his clearly mentally ill wife to the hospital.)
Ideologically, I’m on board with a lot of the implicit points here: essential oils aren’t medicine, “clean” eating is often disordered eating in disguise, and nothing in the world sounds crazier than someone earnestly explaining what an “indigo child” is. But the way Hungry Hearts links those beliefs to mental illness is disingenuous. Mina isn’t just wacky in that familiar “keep chemicals out of my water” way; she’s sick. She needs help. There’s nothing ideological about it.
Is you crazy? Since when is trying to protect your child from a poisonous environment evidence of mental illness? Store bought baby formula is laden with atrizine which causes reproductive defects, glysopgate which kelates minerals and destroys intestinal flora, and .BT toxin which literally perforates the intestines leading to leaky gut syndrome and sparks autoimmune diseases such as autism and diabetes. Either the makers of this movie were paid off by the bio tech industry or you were. Either way you are a disgusting person for minimizingthe very real health threats that are facing our children and everyone else. Shame on you for trying to say growing your own food makes you a crazy person.
Above comment is a great example of Poe’s Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
“poisonous environment” – Please give citations
“Store bought baby formula…causes reproductive defects” – No it doesn’t
“Store bought baby formula…destroys intestinal flora” – No it doesn’t
“Store bought baby formula…literally perforates the intestines” – No it doesn’t
“Store bought baby formula…sparks autoimmune diseases such as autism and diabetes” – No it doesn’t
“the makers of this movie were paid off by the bio tech industry” – Everyone who disagrees with my magical thinking is a shill maaaan
“…very real health threats that are facing our children and everyone else” – Please elucidate since your above examples were false
“Shame on you for trying to say growing your own food makes you a crazy person.” – Nobody said that
Very bad trolling, or very bad thinking, not sure which.