Feed is a 2017 independent drama film starring actors
Troian Bellisario and
Tom Felton. 18-year-old twins Olivia and Matt were born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them and even their dreams are connected. As they prepare for their last year of school together, an unforeseen tragedy tears them apart. The film was released on July 18, 2017.
Tropes:
- Affectionate Nickname: Olivia is usually called Liv by her twin brother, parents and friends.
- Angsty Surviving Twin: Liv is left distraught on the death of her twin brother Matt, particularly since they had vowed to die together while just children. She then hallucinates him being there and draws comfort from it at first, with Liv appearing to believe that it's Matt's ghost. However, he then starts causing harm to Liv by having her save food for him (as Matt claims to need it) rather than eating more herself.
- Control Freak: Matt was this to Liv even before dying. Matt tells her what to do, what to say, what to think — and, specifically, when not to eat. (Liv visualizes that she's saving the food for Matt, who can only live on if Liv makes this sacrifice.)
- Driven to Suicide: After a suicide attempt at a party her parents hosted, Liv is sent to an Eating Disorder Inpatient Treatment Center.
- Force Feeding: Liv is force-fed a replacement meal shake through a tube down her nose and throat after refusing to eat in front of her therapist.
- Incest Subtext: The twins are close. Perhaps Matt is a little too protective of his sister Liv.
- Interrupted Intimacy: Matt stops his sister Liv having sex with Julian in the film early on. Later her memory of Matt stops Liv after she's begun having sex with him.
- Lingerie Scene: Liv is shown in her underwear several times.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Liv loses her virginity by having sex with Julian on the couch.
- Manipulative Bastard: Matt to Liv. Even in eating disorder rehabilitation, her brother torments her by forcing her to lie to the therapists or forcing her to save food for him (against the center's rules).
- Their First Time: Liv gives in and loses her virginity by having sex with Julian toward the end of the film, but breaks it off pretty quickly.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: Olivia, unable to carry the guilt she feels alone, begins to see Matt — or some hostile version of him — in moments she might need him most.
- Toplessness from the Back: Liv is shown this way while undressing to have sex with Julian on the couch.
- Twincest: It's strongly implied that Matt wants his twin sister Olivia.
- Villainous Incest: Matt will do anything to keep him and his twin sister close again, even negatively influencing her into a near-fatal eating disorder.
- Wham Shot: The voice in Liv's head telling her not to eat isn't her dead twin brother.
- Weight Woe: Liv starves herself to the point of near-death, forcing her parents to intervene with eating disorder rehabilitation.
