Comments on: “Doll Face”: Art or Life? http://www.about-face.org/doll-face-art-or-life/ Mon, 20 May 2013 13:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: liz http://www.about-face.org/doll-face-art-or-life/#comment-423 liz Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:54:58 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=274#comment-423 also, once you start reaching for that ideal, you can't stop because the real word around you will never match the one on the screen. it becomes your world, but it's unattainable, so you have no choice but to keep reaching and reaching unless you find a way to break out of it. also, once you start reaching for that ideal, you can’t stop because the real word around you will never match the one on the screen. it becomes your world, but it’s unattainable, so you have no choice but to keep reaching and reaching unless you find a way to break out of it.

]]> By: kelly http://www.about-face.org/doll-face-art-or-life/#comment-422 kelly Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:34:08 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=274#comment-422 easy ... the television is the unattainable ideal. I see most have explained that already. easy … the television is the unattainable ideal. I see most have explained that already.

]]> By: Danielle http://www.about-face.org/doll-face-art-or-life/#comment-421 Danielle Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:13:55 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=274#comment-421 Wow, this is very...disturbing and amazing. And, the music, though simple, really brings the whole thing together--very melancholic. The TV, like hzinn said, is just the "perfection" that gets more unrealistic as time goes on. The more unrealistic it gets, the more dangerous it gets, and the more people (womyn) will try harder and harder to reach it--even at the point of self-destruction, which we see all the time in the media (ie. eating disorders, plastic surgery obsessions, phobias of being seen without make-up, etc...) Very thought provoking. Very well done. I'm sharing this with all my friends and family. Wow, this is very…disturbing and amazing.
And, the music, though simple, really brings the whole thing together–very melancholic.

The TV, like hzinn said, is just the “perfection” that gets more unrealistic as time goes on. The more unrealistic it gets, the more dangerous it gets, and the more people (womyn) will try harder and harder to reach it–even at the point of self-destruction, which we see all the time in the media (ie. eating disorders, plastic surgery obsessions, phobias of being seen without make-up, etc…)

Very thought provoking. Very well done.
I’m sharing this with all my friends and family.

]]> By: Jackie http://www.about-face.org/doll-face-art-or-life/#comment-420 Jackie Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:37:24 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=274#comment-420 There is a Youtube of this video, but where the audio is instead the song Illusion by VNV Nation. You should see if it is still up there, the lyrics to the song match perfectly with the imagery. The chorus of the song is, "This world is just illusion, always trying to change you" There is a Youtube of this video, but where the audio is instead the song Illusion by VNV Nation. You should see if it is still up there, the lyrics to the song match perfectly with the imagery. The chorus of the song is, “This world is just illusion, always trying to change you”

]]> By: Trish http://www.about-face.org/doll-face-art-or-life/#comment-419 Trish Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:18:51 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=274#comment-419 In agreement with hzinn (which i question if that's short for Howard Zinn? i admire hiim!), the video clearly depicts the unrealistic nature of women striving for something that they later realize is humanely unachievable. In agreement with hzinn (which i question if that’s short for Howard Zinn? i admire hiim!), the video clearly depicts the unrealistic nature of women striving for something that they later realize is humanely unachievable.

]]> By: hzinn http://www.about-face.org/doll-face-art-or-life/#comment-418 hzinn Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:48:01 +0000 http://about-face.org/blog/?p=274#comment-418 The television holds the image of what the "girl" wants to be. As the television moves away the "perfect image" is getting harder and harder to reach. In this video, literally, but metaphorically, the ideal is getting more unrealistic and more dangerous. At the end of the video, the image is so hard to reach she stretches herself to the end of her physical capacities. However she feels she needs the image so bad that she "breaks" herself to try and reach it--- this is a metaphor for how the media's unrealistic standards damages females' physical, emotional, and cognitive well being. The television holds the image of what the “girl” wants to be.
As the television moves away the “perfect image” is getting harder and harder to reach. In this video, literally, but metaphorically, the ideal is getting more unrealistic and more dangerous. At the end of the video, the image is so hard to reach she stretches herself to the end of her physical capacities. However she feels she needs the image so bad that she “breaks” herself to try and reach it— this is a metaphor for how the media’s unrealistic standards damages females’ physical, emotional, and cognitive well being.

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