Mirror Mirror On The Wall...Who's The Fairest Of Them All?


     We are surrounded by mirrors; in the bathroom, in our rooms, at work, at the department store, for decoration or for a purpose they are everywhere. They rule our lives, we use them to get ready in the morning, we have to check our outfits to make sure they look good in them, we check our makeup in them, we even check our reflection in the windows as we pass by or in a water pool,we can't help but look. Why are we so obsessed, is it a part of our lives and we can't help it, or we are obsessed with ourselves and narcissistic? Everyday people use them constantly but in the documentary it represents something more, outward beauty and obsession with it, pressure to look perfect and be thin, to judge only on outward appearances, not inward beauty. It represents the pressures we feel from our parents to be better, to do better, from our teachers, from our employers, from our friends and even strangers, and from a model scout.
     Who do we blame for this pressure? The media? Magazine covers? Fashion shows? Social media like Face book and Twitter? Store Mannequins ? The makers of Barbie Dolls? Movie stars? Athletes? Or just our society in general? It's difficult just to blame it on one thing, it seems to encompass a variety of factors. In the documentary there was an enormous amount of pressure on these girls to be "perfect" and to stay thin and beautiful. They were taken advantage of and for what? They received no monetary reward or even any sense of self-satisfaction. It was for the gain of the model scouts and the photographers only. Adults taking advantage of children. It took away their childhood and their innocence and placed the value of the mirror above the value of the who the girl's really are from the inside out not the outside in.
     There was no happy ending like maybe in Snow White and other fairy tales. The tale just goes on and on and we don't know what happens next.