Feed is a 2017 American drama film directed by Tommy Bertelsen, written, produced and starring Troian Bellisario. The story revolves around a high school senior (Bellisario) who struggles with life after the tragic death of her twin brother (Tom Felton), causing her physical and mental health, as well as her grades and social relationships, to deteriorate rapidly. Still haunted by her brother's passing, she tries to maintain a facade of normalcy while continually battling with her inner demons. The film is loosely based on Bellisario's own experiences with an eating disorder that she was graciously able to over come. Plot Twins Olivia and Matt are as close as they are different. Olivia strives for excellence, something that her father (James Remar) seems to expect of her more than her fraternity-destined brother. Yet, despite the fact that Matt seemingly has it "easy," he's also the one who looks out for Liv. And while their relationship isn't perfect (perhaps Matt is a little too protective), it is one that Liv can count on. But after arguing with Liv about her decision to get drunk and hook up with their mutual friend Julian (Ben Winchell) at a Halloween party, Matt crashes the car they are in, and dies. Olivia, unable to carry the guilt she feels alone, begins to see Matt — or some hostile version of him — in moments she might need him most. Matt tells her what to do, what to say, what to think — and, specifically, when not to eat. (Liv visualizes that she's saving the food for Matt, who can only live on if Liv makes this sacrifice.) After a suicide attempt at a party her parents hosted, Liv is sent to an Eating Disorder Inpatient Treatment Center. Even there, her brother torments her by forcing her to lie to the therapists or forcing her to save food for him (against the center's rules). During a therapy session, Olivia finally talks to her therapist how she's really been feeling which causes the ghost of Matt to go into a rage, screaming at her about how he hates her and never loved her. After talking to him, she lets go of this version of Matt and recognizes that the voice that is telling her to control her eating isn't that of her brother.

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Notable quotes

“This much thou hast taught me: that I should learn to take food as medicine. But during that time when I pass from the pinch of emptiness to the contentment of fullness, it is in that very moment that the snare of appetite lies baited for me.”
— Augustine, Confessions, as translated by A. Outler, Book 10, Chapter 31, p. 197
“You can tell any story through food. Take , a country in that not many know much about outside of that region, but in Red Sands (2020), I use food to talk about unusual things. I go to the , and that’s a way to talk about our climate emergency because they haven’t had good harvests there for a very long time.”
— Caroline Eden, as quoted by Janet Christie in
“Like many Chinese people, particularly those of the older generation, she didn't show her love for me by hugging or soliciting emotional outpourings, but through food and fussing.”
— Fuchsia Dunlop, , Particular Books, 2023, chapter "Food and the heart", page 367 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0).
“If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.”
— Michio Kushi with Edward Esko, Spiritual Journey (1994), p. 64
“Naturalists and egalitarians don’t believe the rosy predictions about how genetically enhanced food will end famine. Starving people are hungry not because of high population density but inequality in food distribution… Similarly geni-modified food is neither the best nor the only way to feed starving people.”
— Peter Rosett, in “World Hunger:Tweleve Myths” in Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World?, (2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence, p. 149
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

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Notable quotes

“This much thou hast taught me: that I should learn to take food as medicine. But during that time when I pass from the pinch of emptiness to the contentment of fullness, it is in that very moment that the snare of appetite lies baited for me.”
— Augustine, Confessions, as translated by A. Outler, Book 10, Chapter 31, p. 197
“You can tell any story through food. Take , a country in that not many know much about outside of that region, but in Red Sands (2020), I use food to talk about unusual things. I go to the , and that’s a way to talk about our climate emergency because they haven’t had good harvests there for a very long time.”
— Caroline Eden, as quoted by Janet Christie in
“Like many Chinese people, particularly those of the older generation, she didn't show her love for me by hugging or soliciting emotional outpourings, but through food and fussing.”
— Fuchsia Dunlop, , Particular Books, 2023, chapter "Food and the heart", page 367 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0).
“If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.”
— Michio Kushi with Edward Esko, Spiritual Journey (1994), p. 64
“Naturalists and egalitarians don’t believe the rosy predictions about how genetically enhanced food will end famine. Starving people are hungry not because of high population density but inequality in food distribution… Similarly geni-modified food is neither the best nor the only way to feed starving people.”
— Peter Rosett, in “World Hunger:Tweleve Myths” in Designer Food: Mutant Harvest Or Breadbasket of the World?, (2002), quoted by Gregory E. Pence, p. 149
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Feed is a 2017 American drama film directed by Tommy Bertelsen, written, produced and starring Troian Bellisario. The story revolves around a high school senior (Bellisario) who struggles with life after the tragic death of her twin brother (Tom Felton), causing her physical and mental health, as well as her grades and social relationships, to deteriorate rapidly. Still haunted by her brother's passing, she tries to maintain a facade of normalcy while continually battling with her inner demons. The film is loosely based on Bellisario's own experiences with an eating disorder that she was graciously able to over come. Plot Twins Olivia and Matt are as close as they are different. Olivia strives for excellence, something that her father (James Remar) seems to expect of her more than her fraternity-destined brother. Yet, despite the fact that Matt seemingly has it "easy," he's also the one who looks out for Liv. And while their relationship isn't perfect (perhaps Matt is a little too protective), it is one that Liv can count on. But after arguing with Liv about her decision to get drunk and hook up with their mutual friend Julian (Ben Winchell) at a Halloween party, Matt crashes the car they are in, and dies. Olivia, unable to carry the guilt she feels alone, begins to see Matt — or some hostile version of him — in moments she might need him most. Matt tells her what to do, what to say, what to think — and, specifically, when not to eat. (Liv visualizes that she's saving the food for Matt, who can only live on if Liv makes this sacrifice.) After a suicide attempt at a party her parents hosted, Liv is sent to an Eating Disorder Inpatient Treatment Center. Even there, her brother torments her by forcing her to lie to the therapists or forcing her to save food for him (against the center's rules). During a therapy session, Olivia finally talks to her therapist how she's really been feeling which causes the ghost of Matt to go into a rage, screaming at her about how he hates her and never loved her. After talking to him, she lets go of this version of Matt and recognizes that the voice that is telling her to control her eating isn't that of her brother.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Feed is a 2017 American drama film directed by Tommy Bertelsen, written, produced and starring Troian Bellisario. The story revolves around a high school senior (Bellisario) who struggles with life after the tragic death of her twin brother (Tom Felton), causing her physical and mental health, as well as her grades and social relationships, to deteriorate rapidly. Still haunted by her brother's passing, she tries to maintain a facade of normalcy while continually battling with her inner demons. The film is loosely based on Bellisario's own experiences with an eating disorder that she was graciously able to over come.

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