Everything to me tastes like a straight shot of that aforementioned moonshine, even something like wine coolers elicit a pretty strong response. It’s simply because I’m very sensitive to the flavor of alcohol. However, it’s not for any religious, health, or moral reasons. ![]() This is also a special review because it’s the first ever guest post on the blog. So, making a Hard Dew is actually taking it back to its original roots. Mountain Dew was originally the name for a mixer for moonshine. Yes, they came out with official Hard Mountain Dew flavors. What makes it so special? Well, this is the first ever alcoholic Dew review. So that’s very rewarding and exciting for us because it means the message can spread further.”ĬHECK That Sugar Film opens at Event cinemas’ Cairns City location today.Welcome back, everyone, to a very special Dew Review. People are really enjoying it, even in Germany – it’s been dubbed into German – and they just think it’s hilarious. “The sense of humour, I suppose, is not uniquely Australian. I’m so excited by that because it is a global issue. “It’s gonna be a big six months of talking sugar around the world but, you know, it’s the best possible scenario for me. “The same people that did Super Size Me are releasing it across America,” Gameau says. I was just so distracted during the filming.”Īlready, That Sugar Film has been sold in Europe, Canada and South Africa. ![]() “I guess the biggest shock for her was the effect on my mental behaviour. His partner, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith of Winners & Losers fame, was pregnant with the couple’s daughter at the time. Gameau did the experiment about 18 months ago. “That combination of fructose and glucose in a juice or a soft drink, it just attacks the enamel on the teeth and so, yeah, juices are just as bad and the fact that she thought she should have given that shows just how severe the lack of education is.” “(His mother) said, ‘I realise now that I should have given him juice when he was a baby,”Gameau says. ![]() He has rotten teeth and goes to Edwin Smith to have them removed and have dentures put in their place – at the age of 17. One patient, Larry Hammons, reveals he drinks “four or five bottles” or “at least a 12 (can) pack” of Mountain Dew daily. He meets dentist Edwin Smith who has come across people afflicted with “Mountain Dew Mouth”. One particularly shocking chapter comes when Gameau travels to the US state of Kentucky. Mixed in with the statistics are confronting case studies. JUNKED: That Sugar Film documents a 60-day experiment by Damon Gameau that sees him commit to a diet with a daily sugar intake of 40 teaspoons a day – a figure the director claims is only slightly more than what the average teenager consumes. “I thought, this film actually needs to be seen by people that wouldn’t normally go see documentaries and take their kids to a documentary.” “I didn’t want to make a dry scientific documentary that would maybe show at 8.30pm on SBS one Sunday night and appeal to a very small demographic of people. He refers to a quote from Oscar Wilde: “If you want to tell people the truth, you have to make them laugh or they’ll kill you.” There are zany stunts as well, such as when the filmmaker eats plain sugar in place of the equivalent sugar found in processed foods.įinding the balance between science and silly was at the forefront of the filmmaker’s mind. Special effects see Gameau sucked up his own nose to explain the science. That Sugar Film is not a staid documentary. Thirty days into the experiment Gameau was suffering from fatty liver disease and was five kilograms heavier. ![]() Ironically, he reveals the experiment’s 60-day time-frame was chosen because he wasn’t expecting results in just 30. “No one expected the results to be that dramatic.”
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