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2017 · documentary

What the Health (2017)

Directed by Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn1h 37m2017

Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it.

Our read: What the Health (2017) (2017) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Neutral, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.

ElsewhereTMDB6.8360
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How What the Health feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want a documentary exposing links between diet, industry and chronic disease.”

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Heads-upanimal harm

Skip it tonight — You dislike graphic footage of animal processing or diet advocacy films.

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The Game Changers (2018)
athletes and plant-based diet evidence
(more performance focused)
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