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8th Apr '13 6:50:48 PM Austin

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* BrokenAesop: TrueBeautyIsOnTheInside? Kind of undermined by Rosemary being morbidly obese. Her eating habits are incredibly unhealthy and she's likely going to have a heart attack. There's a difference between not conforming to Hollywood's vision of beauty and doing what's best for your own health
** FridgeBrilliance: Like many who've struggled with their weight and dieting, Rosemary just gave up as she stated that "no matter what I eat I'm always the same weight".
** The entire premise of the movie is that Hal is seeing a person's inner beauty, thus ugly women appear incredibly attractive to him and beautiful women appear incredibly ugly. UnfortunateImplications aside, it still comes across as making judgements based on physical appearances. 
** Not precisely true. GOOD people appear beautiful and BAD people appear ugly. It's not a case of let's just switch up people's looks. Katrina, for example, actually isn't very bad looking at all, just a little nerdy, but due to being a sweet and caring girl Hal initially sees her as classically beautiful. However, Hal still does base his initial opinion of women on their looks and is continually surprised that these attractive women are also good people.
** RogerEbert puts forth a partial justification for this in his review, pointing out that movies, being a primarily visual storytelling medium, would ''use'' a visual method of showing us how Hal perceives people now.

5th Mar '13 3:55:15 PM toongrrl1990

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