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Guo Biting's "skinny" trouble
There was once a delicate actor named Guo Biting, who confessed a past experience that made many people jaw-dropping in a show. Imagine a girl who is 1.7 meters tall and weighs only 84 pounds, a figure that will be skewed to the "thin" side on any standard weight chart. But in the eyes of a certain director, Guo Biting's weight and facial contours seem to have become a problem. The director is not filming a documentary about another parallel universe, nor is he looking for an elf who can travel through time and space, but he has asked Guo Biting to "slim her face".
Guo Biting herself also looked a little helpless, she touched her cheeks, not meat, but hard bones. In the eyes of netizens, the director's request is tantamount to saying to Jesus, "Can you turn water into red wine and add a glass of ice?" User A commented: "On her face, I see cheekbones, and the director sees 'potential fat'?"
The director's "artistic literacy" test
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Behind the director's request for Guo Biting, there is a deep meaning. He asked her if she had "artist qualities", which was like simplifying the value of an artist to her face size. It's like at a big dinner party, where what you think is most important is not the delicious dishes, but the color of the candles on the table.
The director may have wanted to convey a "professional commitment", but this has gone beyond the realm of reasonableness and has become an unrealistic demand on the individual's body. Netizen B jokingly said: "Is the next step to direct the actors to have plastic surgery according to the director's sketch?" Many netizens feel that this is not just Guo Biting's personal problem, but a narrow aesthetic of the entire entertainment industry for women's body image.
In this story, the controversy is not only in the director's strict requirements, but also in the single standard of the entertainment industry for the image of women reflected behind this requirement. Our netizen C left an incisive message: "If even the 84-pound Guo Biting needs to have a face slimming injection, then the standard of the entertainment industry is not bone beauty, but 'skeleton beauty'."
This kind of overly demanding requirements not only put pressure on Guo Biting, but also conveyed a distorted aesthetic view to the audience, especially young audiences. This kind of excessive attention and evaluation of body shape and appearance is just like the humorous complaint of netizen Ding: "Next time, the director may ask the actor not to breathe, because breathing will affect the shape of the face." Although such comments are joking, they also reflect people's deep helplessness and concern about this phenomenon.
A source of appearance anxiety
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Netizens have launched heated discussions in the comment area. Some people say that Guo Biting's experience is a microcosm of the requirements for the appearance of professional women, is this requirement out of respect for art or a kind of control and oppression of women? Although these comments have their own positions, it is not difficult to see that this topic has gone far beyond the personal experience of an actress and has become a social phenomenon of widespread concern.
The discussion eventually coalesced into a common focus: how the harsh demands on women's body image have come to take shape in the current entertainment culture, and the social and cultural factors behind these demands. The level of attention and enthusiasm of netizens on this topic shows that people are eager to break the single aesthetic standard and pursue a diverse and healthy definition of beauty. In this discussion about appearance, Guo's experience inspires reflection on "beauty", which not only points to the entertainment industry, but also touches on the deep needs of society for individual respect and diversity.
In this way, as netizens commented one after another, this discussion about appearance anxiety became more in-depth and multidimensional. Whether humorous or serious, each comment adds a new perspective and voice to the topic. And in this witty and sometimes poignant discussion, we can't help but wonder: do we really need to be so harsh on ourselves and others in the pursuit of artistic expression?