By Laura Medina
This recent Halloween Horror season has been positively female.
Yes, definitely Hollywood youth-centric. It’s just the age-old quest of equating youth with beauty and health.
Unfortunately, the quest of hanging onto it longer, since we’re all living longer, makes the desperation scarier.
Elizabeth Banks’ “Skincare,” was based on a recent true crime story that reflects the beauty evolution from superficial makeup to health as wealth investment of skincare.
It also reflects aestheticians’ competition and rivalry morphing into physical intimidation, physical harassment, slander, defamation, and total elimination driving an aesthetician to desperate measures with shady people taking advantage of needy entrepreneurs. Remember, “Skincare” was based on a true crime and trial.
Whew! Thank god, Demi Moore’s science fiction-horror movie, “The Substance,” is an updated version of “Dorian Gray.”
Built on “beauty as health as wealth” and messing with one’s DNA, “The Substance” is a twisted version of rebirth and aging not so gracefully.
It also showcase agism and sexism and the sleazy people in the media industry where women are disposable.
Since these movies are female-centric, the women in your lives, aren’t going to be frightened but the men will be shocked.
Men, will soon learn in a changing society, youth as health, is currency.
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