Beauty. Not What You Think

The films we watched on Tuesday made by Caroline Leaf were very interesting and really grabbed my attention, both the story and in how she made the film.  I particularly enjoyed the one about the two sisters. It struck me that after the man came in and treated her like a real human being even though she was deformed she stayed the same.

Now I know what you may be thinking. You think I cannot accept someone for who they are, even if they seem ugly to us, but I assure you that is not the case. I thought that, like some of the films we have already watched, that she would transform into to something beautiful after she was seen for who she really was.

Apparently my mind has been brainwashed by today's media into thinking that everyone has to be beautiful to be loved. Because every heroine or hero in today's films are either beautiful of handsome it is almost hard to accept someone less tan beautiful to be the hero. I found myself struggling with the fact that Viola was not the ideal vision of beauty that everyone expects of a heroine. Not until the man came into the house and reached out to take her by the hand did I realize that if he could accept her for the way she was, then why couldn't I?

Needless to say, the fact that she stayed her so-called "ugly" self enhanced the fact that she was beautiful. She was still a person even though she didn't meet the very high standard that society calls "beautiful."