Thursday, May 03, 2007

A Cut Above The Rest (Part 1)

Watched a Korean film a couple of days back. It’s called “200 Pounds Beauty (미녀는 괴로워)”. Produced at an apt time when Korea has become a highly coveted destination for plastic surgery, this movie is about a highly obese girl with a voice of an angel. Unfortunately, she is doomed to be a lip sync backup singer till she decided to take fate into her own hands and put herself through a head-to-toe overhaul.
She reaped success and snagged the man of her dreams at the end of the show.
Cliché.

But this movie is timely as it depicts the society which embraces surgical procedures as the quick-fix solution to our physical woes.

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Here are some quotes from the movie that I found rather memorable:

Plastic Surgeon: Beauty is an attitude.
(tells lead actress that apart from looking pretty, a beauty needs confidence to make a person truly attractive)

Friend to Lead Actress: Those with plastic surgery aren’t women. But monsters.

Friend dispensing advice to lead actress again:
All men are the same. They say that plastic surgery is ok. But not with their girls. That’s men.

Male Lead Voicing His Take on Plastic Surgery:
About plastic surgery, I’ve thought about it. I think I can understand. Only if it’s not my girl. I absolutely hate it. …
But I understand.

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What do you think my readers?
For my male readers, are you against plastic surgery in your woman?
For my female readers, would you enhance your physical attributes through surgical means?

P/S Anyone who has touched a fake boob, tell us how it feels like. I am curious about how it feels like to the touch. And really, "You can tell it's fake by touching?" Maybe they're perpetually in a 'petrified state'.

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