Review – PIGSKIN Gives A Brief But Chilling Glimpse At The Horrors of Body Image
PIGSKIN Directed by Jake Hammond Written by Jake Hammond and Nicola Newton Starring – Isadora Leiva, Pablo Gonzalez, Isabella Groff, Luke Evans and Julie Moss Laurie Vernon, at first, second and even third glance, appears to be a normal healthy teenage girl. She’s on the cheerleading squad and seems to be well liked. However she has a secret, one that plagues women from their teens all the way into adulthood – she suffers from a low self body image. She causes herself to be sick, her stomach is scarred from where she has scratched herself, and she wraps her abdomen with a bandage in an attempt to cinch her stomach. Such insecurity may be brought on by her attraction to the the football team’s starting quarterback – an attraction that is reciprocated when he finally asks her out. It begins to weigh heavily on her mind, as she considers just how he might view her body if they become physically
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