Che After the age of 40, the beautiful suffers more than the “racie” which, who knows how, “over time they improve” is a concept that, offered in one letter to Corriere della Sera From the journalist Stella Pende, he suddenly triggered the debate.
It happens to myths. It happens a bit the same thing to those phrases of Paolo Sorrentino’s films that, put there, with the right background of an old Italian song, seem unpublished. An example based on the latest extraordinary film Parthenope? “Beauty opens all doors”. Did you already hear it? Can be…
But let’s go back to beauty that, depending on age, give pleasure or suffering. When I was twenty years old and I was amateurly theater, The girl who played the roles as a young man, Marilù, was almost ten years older than me, who usually covered the most mature parts.
Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
One evening, in front of the mirror of makeup, Marilù, scrutinizing my face, said to me: “You, as old, you will be very beautiful”. As you can see, that sentence I pointed to me. Because there and there he hurt me, as he hurt he made me his mother in the comedy that we took stage, but later to wait for the unveiling of that truth led me to consider my aging with a certain optimism.
In short, unlike many peers, especially the most beautiful, I have always considered old age as my potentially lucky season. Testing the facts, that prediction has come true to the extent that, at this age, I am simply better in my skin.
AND this progressive to accept me, just when the body would not give reasonI think it is truly a prerogative of those who, having been less attractive in his youth, now wears their maturity feeling almost pacified. As at the end of a race that could never win.
Stella is right hanging: The weather is fierce with the beautiful ones who now chase him. The regret of what they have lost, combined with the torment that sometimes these creatures make of their connotations because they continue to respond to the old canons, makes them sad. And sadness, after 40, only makes sadness. (Sorrentino, this I give you for next time).
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