Todd Hayne's Superstar is about the life of Karen Carpenter and her struggles with anorexia. This film flips back and forth between real life videos and a made up doll world to tell her story. His use of props and their surroundings draw the viewer in to this recreated world. Amazing! The multiple filming styles seem to meld together to create this one of a kind biography of Karen Carpenter. This girl became infatuated with having a thin figure after a columnist wrote about her being chubby in an article. After that, she spent her time avoiding food and taking ex-lax. Her physical health became so bad that she actually collapsed on stage. She tried getting treatment but even that didn't last long. She found a different approach to staying thin which ended in her death at the age of 32.
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