Leonardo DiCaprio "unrecognizable" or we unable to accept the passage of time?
Why don't we allow famous people to grow up? Various media and some tweeters say that Leonardo DiCaprio is "unrecognizable" Do we have to stop commenting on the physical appearance of the actors and actresses?
Last week Will Smith was in charge of reminding us, with the humor that characterizes him, that time passes for everyone and that it is very difficult to stay in shape when a certain age is reached. The canons that for years have been attributed to the demands of Hollywood, can, only can, that you have to do a little self-criticism and begin to distribute the responsibilities among all. Because perhaps the fault is not exclusive to the industry but to society, which puts its actors and actresses on a too high pedestal, sometimes giving them the category of gods instead of humans.
Accept it once and for all: it is impossible to reach 50 with the image you had at 25, or at 30, no matter how much botox they inject you. This Hollywood ageism, against which women especially have been fighting for years, is reaching the extreme. The pressure on their physical appearance, which celebrities often have to endure to unsuspected limits, creates faces as artificial as the one that Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger or John Travolta look like today.
Leonardo DiCaprio:
— Elías Michel 🎬 (@DonCinefilo) May 10, 2021
*se ve de su edad*
Los medios:
🤨😯😳🤯 está irreconocible pic.twitter.com/YG4fDMoEy4
But by what right do we now criticize the monster that we ourselves have created? There seems to be an unwritten rule about stopping aging after age 40. This shadow law has once again made its appearance on Twitter. The focus this time, instead of an actress as usual, has been actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Many users and various media have used the word "unrecognizable" to describe the physical appearance of the interpreter in the first images of the next Scorsese film.
"Actor Leonardo DiCaprio looks like Leonardo DiCaprio" pic.twitter.com/fCBMnZxKeZ
— you like krabby patties dont you squidward (@westsideangels) May 11, 2021
A well-known Spanish media titled: "The image of Leonardo DiCaprio much older and haggard for Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon'." Do these types of headlines give any relevant information or are they just going to hurt?
In the photographs we can see a characterized DiCaprio, more mature and surely with a trouser size greater than the one he had 10 years ago. Something normal, for 90% of humans. So why is it objectionable or noteworthy? Some of the possible reasons were given by the American actress Frances McDormand (63 years old): "Everyone dresses like a teenager. Everyone dyes their hair. Everyone seems obsessed with a face without wrinkles," he commented to The New York Times 2014 actress, who just won her fourth Oscar for the film Nomadland.
Leonardo DiCaprio irreconocible en la nueva película de Scorsese: pic.twitter.com/Si2tY4w3No
— Nico Ruiz (@Pez_out) May 11, 2021
Something very revealing is that if you put Leonardo DiCaprio in Google, the first thing the search engine suggests is "Young Leonardo Dicaprio". Why this suggestion? Are we obsessed with eternal youth?
Undoubtedly, the dictatorship of the youth has been entrenched among the most popular faces for some time. If not that they tell Demi Moore, who has also been criticized for her appearance and possible touch-ups. The actress paraded for Fendi at Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris, and several users took the opportunity to criticize the alleged abuse of her scalpel in networks. "Unrecognizable" was again the word chosen by various means to classify her face.
So where do we agree? We demand eternal youth from them, but we do not want it to be obtained artificially. We want naturalness, but without any wrinkles. We do not want photoshop, filters, or retouching, but that at 50 they look like they did in Titanic. Hope is the last thing to be lost, but let's not ask for the impossible.
