Beauty is in the eyes of beholder

Jesse 2021-11-17 08:01:26

At the beginning of the movie, in the hospital, it was Hal’s father’s advice to Hal before he died:
Never be satisfied with a mid-level level,
don’t be satisfied with a woman of ordinary goods,
find yourself a beautiful woman with breasts and hips.
Passionate youth is everything.

The young Hal left a deep memory, so when he grew up, he only cared about women's appearance, only liked young girls, especially very picky about their figures. Later in the elevator, the doctor did him a favor, which was actually hypnotizing him: no matter who you see, you will only see their hearts. You will use this to evaluate others, because your heart is truly beautiful. Later, Hal met Rosemary, a beautiful and lovely child. In fact, Rosemary was a very fat woman, but her heart was so kind, so in the eyes of the brainwashed Hal, he felt that he should not be a fairy in the world. So he fell in love with Rosemary madly. When Hal’s good friend Mauricio brought Hal back to reality, Hal realized that he was no longer in the Appearance Association, so the girl he had chased before chased him back to him. For her courtesy, he resolutely rejected her and continued his relationship with Rosemary.

In fact, when Hal realized that the beauties were all fake before, I think he was actually very contradictory, because he liked Rosemary at first because she had an angel-like face and a devil-like figure. After getting along for a long time, she found that she was kind and smart at the same time. , Humor, so when he knows all this, he doesn't know which one is more important. He is slowly feeling that in the end, the inner beauty defeats the outer beauty. Chose to continue this relationship.

Of course, the movie is very simple and beautiful. It is nothing more than explaining the correct concept of love to the audience, that is, loving someone. You should not only look at the appearance, but also pay attention to the inner beauty. But from the perspective of boys, boys like girls because they are attracted by their appearance. Boys are such visual animals. Later, I discovered that girls are the same.

At this moment, my mind is divided into two groups, the left brain represents inner beauty, and the right brain represents outer beauty.
Right brain: In the movie, Hal was not attracted by Rosemary's beauty at the beginning, but this beauty was deluded by the movie, saying that it is the incarnation of inner beauty, which is to deceive you children, and the movie can have such a high box office, the key is not to please When the beauty comes to play, if there is no external beauty, you will not know a person at all, and there will be no internal beauty, so can the external beauty not matter, can it not matter?

Left brain: If there is a girl who is beautiful, and you associate with her, you find that she is unreasonable and has a big temper, and the other is a girl who is ugly, but after the relationship, you find that she is very kind in heart, has common topics, and often talks and laughs , Which one is more acceptable to you.

Right brain: That is bullshit. If you face ugly monsters all day, can you be in the mood to live? How can you talk and laugh?

Left brain: Old man Gao's daughter and Zhu Bajie are not good examples.

Right brain: Zhu Bajie can change thirty-six, and he usually becomes a handsome guy.

Left brain: Unreasonable, good, Huang Yueying and Zhuge Liang's example, you have nothing to refute.

Right brain: There are some books in history that Huang Yueying is actually a beautiful woman, only to test Zhuge Liang to play ugly.

Left brain: You fucking unreasonable.

Right brain: Why is it unreasonable.
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Suddenly, I realized that "The Beauty in the Eyes of Lovers" is not at all a contest between inner beauty and outer beauty. As long as a certain person fully meets your aesthetic standards, then he/she is the Shih Tzu/Prince Charming in your mind. Moreover, each person's experience is different, and the aesthetic standards are definitely different, and a certain set of standards cannot be used to restrict people's understanding of things.

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Extended Reading

Shallow Hal quotes

  • [after Mauricio broke Hal's spell]

    Hal: Let me ask you something. Who is the all-time love of your life?

    Mauricio: [ponders] Wonder Woman.

    Hal: Okay... let's say Wonder Woman falls in love with you. And everyone else in the world didn't find her attractive.

    Mauricio: It wouldn't matter. Because I know they'd be wrong.

    Hal: See! That's what I had with Rosemary! I saw a knockout, I don't care what anybody else saw!

    Mauricio: You're right. I guess I really did screw you, huh?

  • Mauricio: Shallow Hal wants a gal.