: Shallow Hal
The plot’s predictable: shallow Hal is a guy obsessed with physically beautiful women until he is hypnotized into seeing the “inner beauty” and falls in love with a fat woman. Of course she doesn’t look fat to him — he sees her as Gwynth Paltrow. I liked that effect. The film was not quite as deep as I hoped, but in other ways deeper than I expected. The only thing I didn’t like was that the filmmakers had an automatic “fat = ugly” attitude, which was rather odd considering the theme of the film is that appearance doesn’t matter. One touching scene was where Hal meets a little girl burn victim and doesn’t recognize her because when he saw her the first time he saw her inner beauty and didn’t know she was scarred. Very cool.
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