Diabetes, really?
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That was a nice touch. With all the candy he ate in the cage, I thought it was ironic.
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Seemed like a completely pointless wrinkle in the story. They have that moment at the end when he's suddenly incapacitated and just as suddenly springs back into action. It lacked suspense or purpose. It was just there.
"I'll book you. I'll book you on something. I'll find something in the book to book you on."
yeah.... but then again, eating that much candy...
I Swear if they didn't include that people would be arguing that it was unrealistic and hating on the movie.... They just can't win, Damned if you do Damned if you don't
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Although, eating too much sugar doesn't cause diabetes.
shareyeah but he ate so much. Not just because it is candy. He just ate SO much... It just happened to be candy, but still....
One ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
Didn't they only show like three shots of him biting a piece of candy? Once outside the door and maybe two in the cage (and they were pretty small bites, I thought that was a good strategy if youre being force fed).
shareAlthough, eating too much sugar doesn't cause diabetes.
because you are expert.
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People's ignorance of diabetes astounds me. With all of the knowledge available on the internet you would think people would understand diabetes a little bit more.
Hansel suffers from type 1 diabetes in the movie. He is completely dependent on injections of insulin to survive. However, the way he contracted the disease in the movie is completely ignorant. Type 1 diabetes is not caused by eating too much sugar. I have little kids ask me if eating too much sugar caused my type 1 which is understandable because they're children. But adults still thinking like this? Inexcusable.
Hansel has to inject insulin every few hours to live in the movie. However, in real life, a type 1 diabetic will not pass out or simply die if they don't have insulin in just a few hours. It usually would take more than just a few hours for a diabetic to be in an emergency situation with high blood sugars to die. My blood sugar when I was first diagnosed reached 1020 and I still wasn't dead.
Oh well, I know this is a movie but I hate when people spread their ignorance over an important topic to understand.
well, none of their gadgets in this movie could ever exist.
I guess in this movie universe you DO get diabetes by eating too much candy. Let's just leave it at that.
This universe has real witches, and kids that get diabetes from candy.
right....
People's ignorance of diabetes astounds me. With all of the knowledge available on the internet you would think people would understand diabetes a little bit more.
Hansel suffers from type 1 diabetes in the movie. He is completely dependent on injections of insulin to survive. However, the way he contracted the disease in the movie is completely ignorant. Type 1 diabetes is not caused by eating too much sugar. I have little kids ask me if eating too much sugar caused my type 1 which is understandable because they're children. But adults still thinking like this? Inexcusable.
Hansel has to inject insulin every few hours to live in the movie. However, in real life, a type 1 diabetic will not pass out or simply die if they don't have insulin in just a few hours. It usually would take more than just a few hours for a diabetic to be in an emergency situation with high blood sugars to die. My blood sugar when I was first diagnosed reached 1020 and I still wasn't dead.
Oh well, I know this is a movie but I hate when people spread their ignorance over an important topic to understand.
Yes to all of this. The depiction of diabetes in this movie was utterly unreal and deceitful. share
Was a bit annoying.
Good I suppose to have someone with a chronic illness that isn't portrayed as a victim or helpless or a problem etc but, again, eating sugar (no matter how much) doesn't give you diabetes. Oh, and the timer thing? That was lame. Why didn't he need to inject stuck in the tree, how does he get any sleep etc if he needs to inject every few hours as stated rather than when eating food with carbs in it like regular insulin dependent diabetics?
Oh, and the term diabetes is dates back to the ancient greeks . . .
But heh, it's fantasy.
Bah.
I assumed the candy was enchanted to make the eater gain weight faster, which also caused him to develop diabetes so fast and at such a young age.
shareI was just gonna say maybe it was part of the witch's spell, but Watcher101 beat me to it, dang it! I thought it was a clever twist because the witches could use that weakness against him. Take the epi-injector away from, keep him fighting a few hours...too bad they didn't show a witch doing that deliberately. That would've been cool.
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Well it's probably magical candy, I mean it is a witch house made of candy in a movie where witches (both good and bad), trolls and "holy" weapons exist so why can't the candy cause diabetes? Plus it's a frigging movie, with all the things I just mentioned in it, who really cares?
"We stayed up all night dry humping, it was awful, I think she gave me poison ivy."
it felt like it was chucked in randomly as an afterthought. twice he needed to medicate but it didn't seem like it was really anything added to the character
Why not for a popcorn movie!
Its that man again!!
Of course it doesn't matter that much, but I thought it was a hilarious detail.
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