If “beauty is truth” . . . What are we doing?
As a class starter today, I’d like you to visit the Dove website and watch the video on the front page. When you first load the page, be patient and wait for the words “evolution” and “play film” to appear. Then click and view.
I would like you to discuss this video in a blog article and I have given you the following questions to guide your thinking. Please respond to these questions and feel empowered to follow your own train of thought into a slightly tangental contemplation.
- What is the significance of this video? In our culture? In your life?
- Why is the process displayed in the video necessary? (That is, why does this take place?)
- How do each of us perpetuate the myth this video expresses?
- In what ways is this video true, even if it is a theatrical recreation?
After you finish your blog article, I’d like you to copy your best line – the line that expresses your most insightful thought – and post it as a comment to this article. That way, when we’ve finished, we should be able to glance at the comments to this article to see the best of our thinking about this video. When posting your comments, leave the URL of your blog in the website box so readers can click on your name and see your blog.
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You can think someone is so perfect and it turns out they are just another regular person like everyone else.
Women are looking at these magazines, and plastic surgeons are smiling knowning that they are going to have a great pay day.
The world today tries to make things perfect, but the world is not perfect.
Everybody has something about themselves they dont like.
They are really just everyday people except their pictures are taken to a computer to make them perfect in the eyes of the editor.
Nobody is perfect and people kill themselves just to look like a billboard. I guess it’s necessary because you have to be perfect to fit in but the truth to the matter is nobody is perfect and people can’t seem to realize it.
I mean so much money and time is put into it that all that effort could go into helping the poor, the homeless, and every other problem that we’re facing today. Instead there’s all this pressure to be thin, and have the right hair and make up.
I think that that video is true though, because people always judge other people on how they look.
and now you know why alot of women and teens now a days are starting to have eating disorders and more plastic surgery.
It shows the problems that people have about how they are never happy about how they look.
i think that girls worry and try way to hard to make themselves more beautiful…………
No one is perfect, but these companies try to convince you that you can be.
Fake people are wrong because its not who they are. Being yourself is one of the only true things you have in this world.
I think the significance of this video is that you can always change something even if you don’t have to change it.
The significance of this video is that it gives those people who aren’t exactly endowed with the best looks, a chance to make it in the celebrity or fashion world. It will let them think that they are beautiful even if they have been told their whole life that they are not. This action takes place because even people who are really beautiful and make it in the fashion world, there is something wrong with everybody. This process is continued through the fact that we by the products that this Is possible with and we believe in the fact that almost any one can be made beautiful. This video is true because this is exactly how the fashion and real world work.
those people aren’t real, those people go through hours of hair, makeup, editing, everything that makes them “beautiful”