Beauty Mark

The movie Beauty Mark was a very enlightening movie for me to see. When the movie started I Thought that Diane was going to be ranting about body image and women that have eating problems or women that even over exercise. After the first ten minutes I knew that this wasn’t going to be like other movies I have seen. When Diane began talking about her own personal experiences, it just tied in all of the issues that she was presenting. I was shocked by the things she had gone through in her life. Her mother, who was a beautiful woman, was so concerned with her outward appearance, that she eventually went crazy and was sent to a mental hospital. Also the fact that her father had pushed her so hard and was so competitive with the brother was another reason that she began to run her own body into the ground. After finding out that she was raped as a child, it just added to the difficult life that Diane was faced with. It is amazing that things that she is doing in trying to explain to people that body image isn’t the most important thing in the world. It is better to feel good about one’s self on the inside rather than focusing on outward appearance.

Ray Wertz
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