The Beijing Film Festival, at this time of year, will become a major event in the Chinese-speaking entertainment industry.
With a star-studded cast of veterans and energetic rising stars, a visual feast on the red carpet kicked off.
This year is even more unique, and the appearance of the two actresses in the same frame has caused a lot of controversy in the entertainment industry.
They are the 45-year-old national goddess Gao Yuanyuan and the 51-year-old "goddess of immortality" Lin Chiling.
When the two of them made a grand appearance in dresses, the scene was amazing. I saw Gao Yuanyuan wearing a black bandeau dress, like a swan, showing the elegant demeanor that a great beauty should have.
She is old, and the years have left traces on her face, but she does not hide them, but regards these natural aging wrinkles as a gift of life, and accepts them calmly.
A simple hair, with a little bright around the neck, noble and elegant without losing the charm of elegance.
In contrast, Lin Chiling appeared in a white lace dress, and her outstanding temperament still deserves her reputation. Just take a closer look, and you will feel that her face is no longer so natural.
The apple muscles, which once made countless men crazy, are now swollen and stiff, which is clearly the result of excessive injections.
Not to mention that her forehead and eyebrows and eyes are covered with unnatural wrinkles, giving people a feeling of excessive medical beauty and loss of original youth.
Some entertainment critics bluntly said that Gao Yuanyuan and Lin Chiling stood in the same frame, vividly showing the stark gap between natural aging and medical beauty.
Although Gao Yuanyuan's face is inevitably marked by the years, it is this attitude of calm acceptance that makes her temperament and posture still amazing.
But Lin Chiling seemed to have been carefully carved by the wax figure workshop, and her face lost its vitality and charm.
If you think about it carefully, it really makes people sigh that medical beauty is a double-edged sword, and if you are not careful, you will end up with a "plastic surgery zombie".
Although Lin Chiling has had to use this means in order to maintain her career and beauty over the years, she has finally stabbed the rice kettle.
She lost the opportunity to age naturally, and instead deprived herself of her original beauty.
Now, Lin Chiling has taken the initiative to withdraw from the entertainment industry and retreated behind the scenes to get along with her husband. It's just that she doesn't seem to realize that living in someone else's way is just a copy after all. I hope she will come to her senses soon and enjoy the simple life of being an ordinary person, instead of being bound by this false beauty. It's not as calm and comfortable as Gao Yuanyuan, living out of oneself and growing old is still the same, wouldn't it be more calm and tranquil?
In addition to the contrast between the stars and the stars, there are many highlights on the red carpet of this year's film festival that are worth appreciating.
For example, 49-year-old Jiang Qinqin is wearing a green dress, with an elegant and generous temperament, and her skin is as white as a lotus flower, which is really a model of a beautiful woman.
The 27-year-old Guan Xiaotong is full of youth and vitality, and a white dress outlines her perfect body curves even more attractively, which can be called the embodiment of a little fairy.
It seems that nature is the best makeup artist, young girls don't wear makeup, instead of striving for the eternity of the face, it is better to cherish the present, manage the face with heart, and be cautious about all kinds of beauty methods.
Of course, those veteran Hong Kong stars such as 61-year-old Ye Tong and 59-year-old Wu Junru are all as radiant and radiant as the sun sets.
In the face of the fine lines and gray hair left on their faces by the years, they did not hide and embellish, but turned all this into the style of life.
It seems that the entertainment industry is not without "Lao Mei" masterpieces, as long as you are calm and comfortable in your heart and have a sense of awe for life, you will be able to show different unique charms at different ages.
In short, the red carpet of this year's Beijing Film Festival is like a fashion kaleidoscope, with young girls, middle-aged ladies and senior veterans each showing their unique charm and style on this stage.
What is more positive is that more and more people are beginning to cherish the beauty of nature and learn to appreciate the unique charm of women of different ages.
Beauty is never limited to youth, it should also contain unique inner qualities and tastes.
Whether it is natural aging or the use of medical aesthetic means to maintain the youthful appearance forever, the two methods are different, but the core concept is the same, that is, to maintain the humility of sanity and love for life.
Even if you are old, as long as you always keep a bright morning sun in your heart, you will be able to show the beauty of life to the fullest.
In contrast, the blind pursuit of false eternal youth will only deprive oneself of the opportunity to enjoy the flavors of the world, and thus degenerate into a lifeless flesh mummy.
This may be the biggest difference between Gao Yuanyuan and Lin Chiling.
Gao Yuanyuan lives in the moment, feels the taste of life with his heart, and embraces everything with an open heart;
Lin Chiling, on the other hand, was overly obsessed with the obsession of eternal youth, and eventually fell victim to medical beauty.
Looking at the return journey of the two people, we should think more carefully, what is the real beauty, and living happily in the present and embracing the colorful forms of life is the greatest wisdom of life.