I watched this movie while recovering from eating disorder caused by body anxiety. After watching it, there is a detail that I will not forget for a long time, and I must write it down today.
After the heroine accidentally fell and knocked her head, she suddenly discovered that she had "become" a beautiful woman with a "good figure". She took a sharp shot in the mirror and felt that her hands and feet were so perfect. The people in here said, did you see it? I am gorgeous! My old lady is blown up! A black line under the forehead of someone else? ? ...
The movie here does not show a beautiful beauty in the mirror. What she sees is still the original figure, or a woman who needs to wear XL. But what has changed? It was her mind's perception of her figure that had changed.
If a friend knows about eating disorders, they may know that eating disorders involve distorted perceptions of body shape. A patient with severe myopia may be skinny and still think that he is fat and still want to be thinner. Therefore, in the diagnosis of eating disorders, this distorted cognition leads to continuous dissatisfaction with one's own weight and appearance, making it difficult for patients to recover. To fully recover, it is necessary to correct the difference between the self seen by the naked eye and the self seen by the "psychological", and achieve the unity of the two.
The heroine hasn't become thinner or beautiful from beginning to end. In fact, she has always been good at dressing, she has always been beautiful. In her mind, she "becomes" a beauty only because her brain identifies with herself, and she thinks she is beautiful, so she has nothing to lose.
Just as the male and female protagonists in the film told her at a picnic, you have a charm that is different from ordinary people, because others are entangled in their imperfections, but you don't.
Being thin is not necessarily healthy, and being fat is not necessarily lazy. You don't need to be thin to become beautiful, and you don't need to be beautiful to identify with yourself. As long as you think you are beautiful and you think you are valuable, then you are beautiful and valuable.
Even if there are bugs in plot design and logic, this is still a good movie in my mind. Besides, it's really funny~
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