{"id":56599,"date":"2011-06-26T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T02:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=56599"},"modified":"2011-06-26T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T02:30:53","slug":"forks-over-knives-movie-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/06\/26\/forks-over-knives-movie-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Forks Over Knives Movie Review 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Forks Over Knives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Lee Fulkerson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cast: Neal Barnard, Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., Matthew Lederman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Forks Over Knives&#8217;, from director Lee Fulkerson, fashions itself a hip, savvy treatise on vegetarianism, sort of &#8216;An Inconvenient Truth&#8217; for the animal rights and beware-meat, health-conscious set. Instead, it&#8217;s a wearying polemic that tests the patience of even those who might be inclined to agree with it.<\/p>\n<p>Fulkerson takes as his two chief crusading subjects biochemist T. Colin Campbell and Cleveland-based surgeon Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. Breaking out the science, they (and others) argue that the health benefits of eating vegetables are vast, and varied. Nipping a page from &#8216;Super Size Me&#8221;s Morgan Spurlock, Fulkerson also does the &#8220;personal investigation&#8221; thing, opting for an all-veggie diet, and then tracking his own plunging blood pressure and cholesterol counts. The problem is that Fulkerson evinces such a bland, wet-noodle charisma, and this material is so fitfully interwoven, that &#8216;Forks Over Knives&#8217; fails as a personality-driven endeavor, which has the detrimental effect of further undercutting the more empirical evidence at the movie&#8217;s core.<\/p>\n<p>So, too, does the movie&#8217;s somewhat hectoring tone, and insistent anti-meat, anti-dairy stance. While fruits and vegetables are understandably an integral part of a healthy diet, Fulkerson seems to arrive a bit too quickly at the notion that a diet that has more or less worked for humankind for thousands of years is now outmoded and ridiculous. A thematically similar recent documentary, Joe Cross&#8217; juice-diet promulgating &#8216;Fat, Sick &#038; Out of Control&#8217;, also centered on a couple subjects who removed meat and diary entirely from their diets, but more as a kind of physical &#8220;reset&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>A populace with a greater awareness of food and general healthiness is a good thing, but there are far better methods of education than the clumsy, repetitive and not very engagingly rendered &#8216;Forks Over Knives&#8217;. Watch the evening news, read a couple books, check out some fitness magazines and lean cookbooks. Don&#8217;t feel the need to submit to this agitprop; that&#8217;s just laziness in reverse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55693\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55693\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forks-Over-Knives-Movie-Poster11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forks-Over-Knives-Movie-Poster11.jpg\" alt=\"Forks Over Knives\" title=\"Forks Over Knives\" width=\"480\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forks-Over-Knives-Movie-Poster11.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Forks-Over-Knives-Movie-Poster11-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forks Over Knives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Forks Over Knives Director: Lee Fulkerson Cast: Neal Barnard, Caldwell Esselstyn Jr., Matthew Lederman &#8216;Forks Over Knives&#8217;, from director Lee Fulkerson, fashions itself a hip, savvy treatise on vegetarianism, sort of &#8216;An Inconvenient Truth&#8217; for the animal rights and beware-meat, health-conscious set. 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