In domestic entertainment hot searches, a topic about "cliff aging" will appear every now and then.
What has been much discussed under this topic recently are the two actresses who appeared at the event some time ago - Sun Li and Ma Yili.
From the event videos and live photos, netizens pointed out that the two people were in a lackluster state and were quite tired.
Among them, Sun Li is more controversial. It seems that it is difficult for everyone to accept that Huan Huan, who is "unparalleled in beauty and has no one in the world who can compare with her", will also grow old like ordinary people. However, Sun Li is no longer 28 years old when she starred in Zhen Huan. In addition, with all the stars on the same stage, netizens will inevitably compare her with other female stars of the same age.
"Are these two not doing aesthetic medicine at all? Let yourself grow old."
"Haven't you always paid attention to health care? How did it become like this now?"
Questions like these are amplified by the spotlight, cameras, and social media. The normal signs of aging appear particularly eye-catching and dazzling.
Of course, doubts and ridicules are not all, and there are also many voices that strive for female stars to have the right to age naturally.
The controversy between the two sides has become more and more intertwined with the whirlpool and mediation that domestic entertainment female stars find themselves in when facing aging.
Zhou Xun talked about aging in "The Reader"
Once the public discovers that a female star is "not as beautiful as before", the public opinion that follows will inevitably point to the reason - "Look, she is old. !"
Opposite to "precipice-like aging" are descriptions such as "a certain actress is rejuvenating" that often appears on hot searches. As a result, the public opinion trend of "beauty defeats time" has returned to its original position, and people have the skills to maintain their appearance. Youfang's "myth of immortality" has become the most "correct" way to open up female stars in domestic entertainment.
The situation in which domestic entertainment female stars are "not allowed to grow old" involves the reconstruction of female aesthetic subject reality and object imagination, and also exposes a general anxiety about age and fear of aging in social emotions.
When women face topics such as aging, life and death, and time, their struggles, thinking, and reconciliation become clear.
There is such a scene in the 2023 hit movie "Barbie":
When the classic Barbie discovered that cellulite appeared on her legs, she panicked. Along with a series of "abnormal phenomena" such as flat feet, Barbie was Other Barbies in the park watched and discussed.
This scene in the movie "Barbie"
is also suitable for internal entertainment.
Female celebrities in domestic entertainment need to maintain a perfect and unmistakable beauty at all times. They cannot grow old, have wrinkles, nasolabial folds, bags under the eyes, or lose collagen. Even if they are in their forties or fifties, they must still look "ageless". The slightest difference in
is met with overwhelming verbal and written criticism.
Zhou Xun, who became famous at a young age, has been hailed as an "auraful actor" since his debut. She had expressed a comfortable acceptance of aging in early interviews. At the age of 30, her skin is no longer the same as when she was 17 or 18 years old, but she thinks: "So what? I'm so happy that I'm getting older. I hope I can get the corresponding wisdom and have the corresponding strength."
However, in the following years, the reaction from the outside world caught her off guard.
Questions such as "Zhou Xun is old" and "has no energy at all" began in the movie "When Will There Be a Bright Moon" and reached their peak in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", all because she played a teenage girl in these two dramas but was in poor condition. Even though she presented many delicate performances and highlight scenes in the middle and later stages of "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", what the public seems to remember is only her slightly swollen face in the first few episodes.
TV series "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace"
Zhou Xun did not defend himself at the time.
When she was filming the cover of Harper's Bazaar at the end of 2018 and talking to director Peter Chan, she confessed her sadness and fear of aging and being scolded: "In those few years, I worried about this every day, and the footage I shot was People talk about fatness and wrinkles. I literally start crying when I wake up in the morning and sit on the sofa. Even if the sun is shining brightly, I still cry."
For actresses, the passage of time on them is particularly clear and cruel.
Actor Yang Rong played the sexy and mysterious female doctor Liang Wan in "Sand Sea". When the series was broadcast, Yang Rong was questioned" Acting as a young girl in her thirties, acting pretentious and pretending to be young."
To this, she responded helplessly: "It's not that I'm afraid of aging, but the current film and television environment makes actresses afraid of aging. We are a group of 30+ people. The actresses work hard to maintain their girly personas, not because we like them, but because the market needs them. "
The TV series "Sand Sea"
Similar denunciations and controversies have become commonplace.
The signs of aging squeezed by girlishness, and the actual increase in age numbers, in exchange for an increasingly narrow career space. Even white and thin It can be made up for later, but "age" is the only thing that makes more and more outstanding actresses speechless.
Yao Chen serves as the producer and is planning to shoot female-themed movies
When actresses have reached a relatively mature age, they obviously have the qualifications The golden age of more stories, but found that there were fewer and fewer roles that she could and wanted to play.
So, at the 2019 first film festival, Hai Qing took Yao Chen, Liang Jing, and Song Jia on the same stage and published The "Actress' Declaration".
Hai Qing took the stage and called for more opportunities for middle-aged actresses
There has always been a lack of images of mature women on domestic entertainment screens, let alone images of women in their 50s, 60s and even older. Some people say: "If Isabelle Huppert was in domestic entertainment, she might only play the role of the evil mother-in-law." The image of women is solidified and aphasic. Apart from revolving around the family, there are very few presentations of more dimensions of women's lives.
All of the above have created a situation where domestic entertainment actresses do not dare to grow old.
Talk show "First Person Plural"
The "absence" of actresses with a sense of age on the screen is a lack of aesthetics in the entire society. Under such an aesthetic system, middle-aged women are full of age anxiety. In order not to be abandoned, female celebrities strive to maintain the appearance of their teenage years and strive to become "age-defying goddesses".
domestic entertainment has become a barbieland that is wary of "cellulite", while female celebrities have become "Barbies" who will collapse at any sign of aging.
Not being allowed to age is just one of the worries about the "beauty" of female stars.
To eliminate nasolabial folds and tear troughs, to use black technology to rejuvenate, to have right-angled shoulders, an A4 waist, to display coins on the collarbone, and to touch the navel with the backhand... Domestic entertainment female stars seem to have never stopped serving " Beautiful service".
Female celebrities all wear right-angled shoulders
Because in the eyes of the public, the beauty of female celebrities should not be linked to age. Whether on or off the screen, female stars in the public eye have become a beautiful object and a beautiful landscape in a conventional way.
This kind of convention is the result of the long-term social and cultural imagination, processing and shaping of female beauty.
In the traditional social landscape of the past, people tended to distinguish men by ability and women by appearance. 's rigid social gender division of labor believes that men are encouraged to pursue social status and wealth; while women, who have been in the "second sex" for a long time, can only use their charm to exchange their own value through further control of their bodies. Security and comfort. One of the ways for
to gain "charm" is to satisfy the framed aesthetic. Social power and gender gaze also lead to diversified transformations of the female body.
When "beauty" is no longer a cognition dominated by sensibility, the body and appearance are broken down into subdivided indicators. "Beauty" that follows established standards becomes an existence with class significance, with high and low levels. At the same time, the body and the self are equated to the greatest extent, so the disciplines on the beautiful body naturally become disciplines on the self.
In order to maintain "high-end beauty", female celebrities have no choice but to look at food and sigh, and use pictures to manage their bodies. should maintain the right sense of relaxation, but does not allow slightly flabby arms, breasts, waistlines, and legs. around.
The more subdivided aesthetic dogma is just another kind of hidden superficial demandingness, and behind it is the flow of resources.
Since the 21st century, female images active in advertisements, movie screens, and TV screens have become a visual commodity, harvesting the desire and pleasure of male audiences and inspiring the recognition and following of female audiences.
On the one hand, women's bodies have become extremely valuable and attractive commodities in consumer culture; on the other hand, "beauty consumption" such as plastic surgery, body shaping, whitening, and makeup encourage women to engage in visual processing of body image.
The monologue drama "Hear Her Say" series "Magic Mirror"
Visual pleasure points out the direction for the flow of capital. For capital, 's "youth" is a trump card that has been tried and tested. In a world framed by capital, the "right answer" is to always maintain a skin that can be broken by a bullet and a young age like a flower. Capital happily welcomes and selects young, fair-skinned, and tall female celebrities, making "Bai Youfan" the female aesthetic paradigm of this era.
Chen Chong participated in the talk show "Thirteen Invitations"
The popularity of girl group talent shows and the huge pie of the idol market's fan economy have attracted capital into the game, deepening the operation of the "white, thin" aesthetic, and girls who meet the standards have a bright stardom. Those who do not conform will suffer body shame on the Internet. The girl group "idol" has become the target of netizens' visual judgment on women. Even actresses are not immune to the "white, thin" aesthetic framework.
When the body becomes an assembly line product that chases standards, and when the aesthetics of extreme details becomes a culture, the biggest disadvantage is that the public mistakenly believes that if a certain condition is not met, it is not good enough or beautiful enough.
Wang Ju, who participated in a girl group talent show, was criticized for her appearance.
When the "beauty" of a female star becomes an object to be shaped, it may be due to an inappropriate makeup, the "death" lighting of an event, or someone in the camera lens The angle was not good enough, and one photo out of 100 was in poor condition. Comments on her being ridiculed for "pretending to be young" and "aunty" came flooding in, and they were simply and crudely equated with aging.
In fact, it is not just domestic entertainment female stars, modern people seem to be afraid of growing old.
Consumer society and resource allocation remind people in various ways that this is an era where age is kept secret. The youthful social landscape itself embodies age discrimination in the competition mechanism. In the fast-paced modern life, diverse values and life choices fail to find an outlet, and age anxiety, which is accelerating more and more, has become a universal crux.
b station @ Dai Jinhua talks about movies
In the face of aging, women are often in a more depressed situation.
In our culture, is accustomed to view a woman's aging from the perspective of the male gaze as sadness or depravity, and does not allow the aging of a man to grow old in the world. On the contrary, the aging of a man is regarded as mature and mature. , loyal praise, seems to only evaluate women's appearance and appearance, while their inner being is imprisoned in the "old age and decay" that deviates from the "beautiful" template, and no one cares about it.
movie "I love you!" 》Depicting the emotional life of elderly female characters
In the construction of social gender, women, including female celebrities, have largely become imaginary objects about beauty. In addition, the consumer society has amplified the commodity attribute of "beauty" and attracted public attention. Power consumption has been trained to only be willing to "pay" for the established and known beauty.
Social media has promoted the alienation of female beauty in the consumer society, making the public believe that female stars should maintain their beauty at all times. Coupled with the long-term aphasia in portraying the image of older women on the screen, it is difficult for people to accept the existence of "Beauty" in objective perception will be "destroyed" by natural aging, and it is impossible to imagine how "beauty" is related to dimensions other than "youth."
Even though the "Lang Jie" variety show shouted "no fear of age", after the show was broadcast, a large part of the praise for these "a bit old" female stars was still "these sisters don't look like 40+ at all" , 50+”, “Their age figures look like they are played”, “Time has stopped on them” and so on.
Today, the "tolerance" of older women in the consumer society is mostly based on the "myth of agelessness" such as "not looking like an older woman."
Opposite to the "myth of agelessness" is a "graceful aging" argument that seems to be correct in feminism, trying to alleviate the anxiety caused by aging.
However, using elegance to modify aging is just another way of covering up the obvious. The subtext of "aging gracefully" is that even as you age, you must conform to the beauty framework set by society and capital. It means studying your bones, maintaining self-discipline, and yet appearing to age effortlessly. It seems that only by creating the illusion that aging is controllable can we gain the courage to face aging and be allowed to age.
When we think about what "aging inelegantly" means, we can't help but find that the beauty of women is too deeply tied to age.
Zhou Xun talked about aging in the "The Reader" program
Brigitte Lin once said publicly: "After 60 years old, it is also very hard to search for beauty because of your beauty." "I don't care whether you are old or beautiful. I don’t care, I think this is a part of life, there is nothing to be afraid of, this is the law of nature, you have to accept it if you don’t accept it, otherwise you are asking for trouble. On the contrary, my friends and movie fans are more concerned about this topic."
on age The stereotyped cognition prevents us from viewing aging correctly, and simply interprets age as the decline of life and the fading of appearance; no longer young, it seems to mean that we no longer have value.
The public often only sees the wrinkles left by aging, but they cannot see a face that has a sense of age, with more traces of thought. Those parts that are different from "youth" and "youth" can also become another dimension of "beauty".
Yongmei spoke at the opening event of the 33rd Golden Rooster Awards
Age, appearance, body, etc., which have been objectified in the past as the standard for measuring women's value, it is time to give way to the maturity and calmness that bloom in women after experiencing the tempering of time.
What the female stars in the "Lang Jie" program really touch the audience is to complete a stage performance without leaving any regrets, using professionalism and concentration to break the prejudice about "age".
The determination to try your best to complete something has nothing to do with whether you are young or not, but it is still beautiful.
Stigmatizing and utilitarianizing women’s natural aging negates women’s subjectivity as human beings. Rather than focusing on the curves of the female body, people should see the soul tension and inner growth of women of different ages.
Faced with the question of how female celebrities view aging, Shu Qi asked: "Do you think it is better to become a monster or to grow old naturally?"
In an interview with People magazine, Yu Feihong said: "Beauty is not just about you. Face, beauty is a whole, beauty is not just about youth, it can last for a lifetime, until 80 or 90 years old.”
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Yu Feihong: Love is the icing on the cake
Even if technological means can fill the gaps on the face, How to bridge the gaps in life? If the question of how to balance family and career has offended women for centuries, then today, "How to balance aging and beauty" can also be regarded as an offense.
More and more female stars of different ages have found a balance between the two - themselves who are not regulated by rigid social aesthetics.
The calmness with which those boats have passed allows us to see the female stars who dare not grow old, calmly entering the next experience of life. That experience may be related to aging, but also the beginning of the ultimate freedom in life.
The reason why the natural aging of female celebrities has made the public angry may be because through the signs of aging magnified by cameras and spotlights, people can see themselves who will also grow old one day in the future.
Others' aging is terrible, but one's own aging is difficult to accept. Everyone has youthful experience, but everyone lacks old age experience. People face their aging selves as if they are facing a stranger.
The TV series "London Flea"
Aging is a process that takes time and effort. This is a subject that women, men, and all life must face face to face.
And the completion of this experience is also a reflection on aesthetic value. The reason why
's aesthetic is unique is because of its complexity, which guides people to constantly think and discover different answers to beauty. How many levels are there in
leading to beauty? From plump and flawless skin to the pursuit of thin shoulders and thin waists, beautiful features are constantly being rewritten, but the essence is still to satisfy the gaze of the aesthetic game.
The hot search for "cliff aging" will not disappear. There will still be female celebrities involved in the scrutiny of aging. When the darkness behind the noise no longer disrupts our sense of order about beauty, age, and aging, this is a beautiful story written by inner growth.
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