Analyse af kortfilmen 'Going Mental' om spiseforstyrrelser

This is a short film by the director Tom Smith. The short film revolves around a girl named Keira. She is clearly suffering from anorexia and depression. Keira can’t even look herself in the mirror without breaking down, she has a very low self-esteem. We get to follow Keira for one day where we sort of get to understand what is going on in her head. Throughout the video we see Keira being unhappy with herself due to a fashion show she watched the night before. Keira tells her ‘psychologist’ that it made her disgusted, that she had to make herself sick after watching it. The ‘psychologist’ tells Keira that she is beautiful as she is, and Keira seemed grateful. Throughout the film we see that, Keira has made up a voice inside her head, who insults her and brings her down even more. In the short film the voice, is portrayed as a human being, possibly a friend called Anna. The friend is probably called Anna because she symbolizes her anorexia. Truthfully Keira just wants this ‘antagonist’ out of her head. Near the end we get to witness Keira in a painful state of mind. Keira keeps having negative thoughts in her head, voices that are telling her not to eat her candy bar. At the end Keira decides to open the candy bar and in a split second all of the voices in her head vanished. Then she slowly takes a bite of the bar, to feel in control of the voices in her head, overpowering them.