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Super Juice Me!

Name: Super Juice Me!
Director: Alex Kalimát
Released: 2014
Duration: 96 min

Representation Score

6.5/10

Good

2014

Not Rated

Director

Alex Kalimát

Runtime

96 minutes

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Super Juice Me! is a niche documentary that emphasizes health-based solutions over social identity issues. It focuses on the lived experiences of people dealing with complex, degenerative diseases. However, the film lacks engagement with LGBTQ+ or gender-based subversion. The narrative is heavily centered on a singular male figure, and there is no visible representation of queer identities. While it offers a critique of pharmaceutical capitalism, it remains limited in broader social diversity.

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Category Breakdown

Does Super Juice Me! have LGBTQ+ representation?

Limited

The documentary does not explicitly mention LGBTQ+ characters or narratives. The focus is solely on a clinical dietary experiment involving eight participants.

How does Super Juice Me! portray gender?

Fair

The narrative centers on Jason Vale, a male lead. Women do not occupy roles of superior influence or intellect compared to him.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Super Juice Me!?

Fair

The film features a group of eight individuals with varied medical histories. While specific ethnic backgrounds are not detailed, the group suggests moderate inclusion.

How does Super Juice Me! represent religion and culture?

Good

The film critiques Western medical institutions and the pharmaceutical industry. It promotes self-directed wellness over traditional, institutionalized drug dependency.

Does Super Juice Me! include disability representation?

Good

The documentary provides visibility to those living with chronic and autoimmune conditions. It centers on the lived experiences and physical ability to act of these individuals.

Present on Screen

Provides significant visibility to individuals managing chronic and autoimmune conditions.
Centers the lived experiences and physical ability to act of participants.
Offers a critique of Western pharmaceutical-led medical interventions.

Limited or Absent

Lacks explicit representation of LGBTQ+ characters or non-straight relationships.
Features a narrative centered heavily on a singular male lead.
Provides limited evidence of gendered power dynamics or female influence.

Official Synopsis

The world is facing a “pandemic” of chronic disease – heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, asthma, kidney and liver disease, Alzheimer’s, autoimmune diseases, allergies and skin conditions and many, many more. This year more than 36 million people will die from degenerative conditions – more than from all other causes put together*, and that number is expected to rise to over 50 million within 15 years. At the same time, the amount spent trying to treat these diseases with pharmaceutical drugs is expected to rise by 50% to more than $1.2 trillion! One summer Jason Vale took eight people who collectively suffered from 22 different chronic diseases and put them on his ‘Juice Only’ diet for 28 days. Could these different diseases with their many different prescribed drugs be improved and even cured by one thing? Maybe it’s time to get Super Juiced!

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