Schönheit

Carolin Schmitz

IndieLisboa 2012 •

Germany, Documentary, 2011, 81'′

On camera interviews from various people with one common denominator, plastical surgery. Their reasons and motives to be beautiful vary and each person is trying to describe their way of thinking in relation to their decision to impose on their natural looks. A constant quest for beauty through a manufactured and comescialized perception of outer beauty, especially the way it is being handled by the westernize world. Breast enlargement with silicone implants or breast reduction, face lift, liposuction, rhinoplasty, cheek augmentation, bottox are only some of the body restorations mentioned to this highly investigative documentary presenting both the addiction in becoming more and more beautiful with all the superficiality that surrounds the issue and the need for medical treatment. (Nina Veligradi)