May I Be Frank

Inspiring to say the least
I decided to purchase this because I couldn't seem to find it on Netflix or Blockbuster and it wasn't being shown anywhere near me. It was a little hard to bite the bullet and pay for it, but I'm glad I did. Not only because I enjoyed it and found it inspiring, but because my husband ended up watching it several times and has since then begun to work with a trainer and is changing his eating and drinking habits (he's quite overweight, and nothing I could say to him has helped him change). The most powerful thing about this film is that the transformation of Frank is not just a physical one - and in fact the physical transformation is the least important and the most unexpected.
Read the other reviews to find out what its about. All I can say is, if you find this subject of transformation interesting, buy this film. You won't regret it.

Unfortunately, not as it seems
When I saw the film the first time I was so inspired. I had just gotten into eating vegan for health reasons and this really got me interested in raw food. And when Frank came out after the film, with this major physical transformation, I was just blown away.

A couple months later I read his blog, in which he wrote how he never ate raw after the movie, gained back all the weight and tried to kill himself. He ended up losing the weight a couple years later, after joining a gym and avoiding carbs for a year.

I did confront the film makers and was told 'well, we never actually say that his transformation is through raw eating. But you can lose that kind of weight with raw food.'

By showing him skinny after the film, it's implied that his transformation is through raw food. That's what everyone assumes and they're not doing anything to change that perception. Cafe Gratitude is supposedly about living an authentic life, yet, this is not authentic to me. Can...

Interesting!
Frankly I enjoyed watching the movie... Frank is really a piece of art. He is so genuine that he is really the star, even though I think the movie was made to show out Cafe Gratitude Philosophy and so. The end should be better, I really didn't like the legends telling about what have happened to Frank after the 42 days, there must have been much more care in the end.

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