Make Me Young

Cinema Libre Studio

R1 DVD

Make Me Young is the extended version of the HBO documentary. Plastic surgery has drastically transformed over the years from its genius as a corrective means for bodily deformities and injuries caused by accidents and war, it is now the focus of those obsessed with you. Americans might struggle with their budgets but the plastic surgery industry is worth some $60 million dollars and even at the heart of the recession there was only a 2% drop in operations.

Mitch McCabe, the daughter of a plastic surgeon, sets out on a quest to explore the plastic surgery industry using her own life as a template. She interviews a wide range of interesting characters from Sherry Mecom was has spent some $35,000 dollars to keep herself young to Norman Deesing who transformed himself into a Jack Nicholson lookalike with a price tag of $50,000 plus.

With obsessions with creams, Botox and every possible beauty AID McCabe lets those obsessed with youth speak for themselves. She avoids unnecessary commentary while try to keep a sense of humour as she confronts the strange obsessions of those who seem unable to accept the realities of life.

Make Me Young is a challenging program which makes us consider what the role of plastic surgery really should be. Certainly we may agree that medicine should help those who need it but it is really necessary to offer medical treatments to fight back the clock when in the end such attempts will ultimately prove futile. At the very least I would think such procedures should be heavily taxed to help balance the medicare budget. It seems to me that the obsession with eternal youth is not only unhealthy but symptomatic of what is wrong with the consumerism of capitalism run rampant. Creams and ointments sold without any real testing, Botox procedures done anywhere and everywhere by anyone with a basic medical degree (including Dentists), plastic surgeons who will do pretty well any form of body modification as long as the cheque doesn’t bounce. Strangely as people have more plastic surgery they seem to need to point out to others their signs of aging and how much surgery they need fuelling the cycle of untrammelled consumption and indulgence.

This is a thought provoking and intriguing documentary.

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