The documentary is giving an insight into the challenges Freddie has faced over the last 20 years living with this disorder and was a great opportunity for him to tell his story. This is a great example of good journalism.
I feel this documentary was beneficial for me and to anyone that watches it for learning how to become a good journalist. I feel they handled the sensitive subject perfectly helping the reader/viewer really understand the issues revolving around this disease how and why people have it. The choice of music, photos etc all added to it to make it an engaging emotional documentary.
The interviewees asked some very straightforward and quite ruthless questions to get some deep answers from Freddie, but one question which stood out as being the most significant is why men with this disease don’t look for medical help? Despite it being a sensitive subject I feel the answers they got just made the documentary even more powerful and hard hitting. It was very surprising the access the people that were interviewed got to Freddie but that may have been because the people who got interviewed had the condition themselves.
I believe the message from this documentary is good because it spreads awareness about this disease, I myself had heard of bulimia but had no idea the extent of the disease and that even a well internationally established cricketer like Freddie could suffer with it for so long. I don’t believe there were any unanswered questions which again adds to the documentary being such an enticing watch.
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