What I Watched -- Soul Food Junkies

Last week (maybe the week before?), I went to see Soul Food Junkies at the Missouri History Museum.  I've always been into food, but pay much more attention to issues of availability and nutrition now that E is a foodie for pay.

This movie is, as you might guess, about the effect that a soul food-based diet has on one's health, based around the filmmaker's reflection on his own father's life and early death.  The film is funny - with a few especially hilarious moments - but at only about an hour, I feel like it's a little too much narrative and not quite enough evaluation.

It isn't until about halfway through the film that the first professional food expert type appears, and another fifteen minutes after that before we get any real prescriptive discussion about how to fix the problems identified.  On the other hand, too much of "should-shouldn't" business can seem preachy, so maybe he cut it out to prevent that.

Bottom line: short, interesting, decently well done.