Remember the 2001 rom com Shallow Hal? You know, the one starring Jack Black, who plays an extraordinarily shallow womanizer that gets hypnotized to only see inner beauty?
In case you haven’t seen it, basically, Black falls in love with an overweight woman named Rosemary, played by Gwyneth Paltrow in a fatsuit.
Only he sees her for said inner beauty — which the film makes a point of stating is the famously narrow-figured look of the actress.
The movie’s heart is ultimately in the right place — the shallowness is bad, lessons are learned — but many discriminatory beauty standards are accepted rather than challenged, and much of the movie’s humor comes at the expense of people’s weight.
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