I have recently viewed an experimental film "Doll Face" by Andy Huang. The craft used in this film is of a very high standard as a lot of thought has gone into the production of this film. To me the context behind the film was of how people strive for perfection. The film starts with the doll emerging from a metal box and the doll is attached to a machine.
The doll's face is very plain and dull but after being bombarded by images from a television, she copies what she is shown. She applies makeup to herself to achieve the barbie like image , but when the television moves away she tries to catch up and self destructs.
I think that Andy Huang is trying to show us how the media influences us in many ways and mainly in the way of image, and how being shown these perfect people on TV we then strive for the perfection ourselves, which usually ends in destruction. For example when someone is striving to be thinner they can take it too far and end up with an eating disorder, some people become addicted to having plastic surgery as a way to reach there goal of being perfect. But sometimes they end up looking fake and having complications making them worse off than when they started.
I think the way the television moves away at the end and she self destructs is very symbolic. I think it shows how we all rely on TV to show us how to dress, what makeup to wear, how thin we should be and how to act. And when what we aspire to be is taken away from us we are just people. And some people find it hard to accept that they will never be perfect, so they strive for perfection to the point where perfection turns into self destruction.
The doll's face is very plain and dull but after being bombarded by images from a television, she copies what she is shown. She applies makeup to herself to achieve the barbie like image , but when the television moves away she tries to catch up and self destructs.
I think that Andy Huang is trying to show us how the media influences us in many ways and mainly in the way of image, and how being shown these perfect people on TV we then strive for the perfection ourselves, which usually ends in destruction. For example when someone is striving to be thinner they can take it too far and end up with an eating disorder, some people become addicted to having plastic surgery as a way to reach there goal of being perfect. But sometimes they end up looking fake and having complications making them worse off than when they started.
I think the way the television moves away at the end and she self destructs is very symbolic. I think it shows how we all rely on TV to show us how to dress, what makeup to wear, how thin we should be and how to act. And when what we aspire to be is taken away from us we are just people. And some people find it hard to accept that they will never be perfect, so they strive for perfection to the point where perfection turns into self destruction.
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