How does it represent social groups or issues?
A persons appearance plays a large role on how they fit into their social life. Our film opening shows a representation of a woman's dissatisfaction with her looks as she age which causes her to act to an extreme level, murder. We chose to base our character on a women as they are the majority of people who go into facial manipulation and are affected by the opinion that society has of them. As our group consisted of 3 girls we thought this idea of looking beautiful to satisfy society also applied to us.
Furthermore, society nowadays have a perception of the "perfect" women who looks like the front cover of a magazine. In reality the photos have been manipulated as scar, stretch marks and wrinkles have been erased. This idea is represented in our film by the collage board where the antagonist cuts up faces of celebrities who she see as beautiful to form her own plan of a perfect face, by which she executes by murdering younger girls and uses their skin on her own body to hide her flaws.
Example of magazine covers we see today:
The woman's character has been similarly executed in reality by a french artist called "Orlan" who
uses her own body and plastic surgery to make "carnal art". She transforms her face to contradict the commonly standard of beauty. Although in the film opening the women does not challenge the standard of beauty but rather goes along with it as the character is fixated with becoming beautiful. However the message that the film opening/movie is trying to convey is the same, that is showing the extent that a person can go if they listen to the perception that society has of beauty and why people should not follow what society says.
Furthermore, society nowadays have a perception of the "perfect" women who looks like the front cover of a magazine. In reality the photos have been manipulated as scar, stretch marks and wrinkles have been erased. This idea is represented in our film by the collage board where the antagonist cuts up faces of celebrities who she see as beautiful to form her own plan of a perfect face, by which she executes by murdering younger girls and uses their skin on her own body to hide her flaws.
Example of magazine covers we see today:
The woman's character has been similarly executed in reality by a french artist called "Orlan" who
uses her own body and plastic surgery to make "carnal art". She transforms her face to contradict the commonly standard of beauty. Although in the film opening the women does not challenge the standard of beauty but rather goes along with it as the character is fixated with becoming beautiful. However the message that the film opening/movie is trying to convey is the same, that is showing the extent that a person can go if they listen to the perception that society has of beauty and why people should not follow what society says.
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| An artwork by Orlan |
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