Botox Fiction
No longer are the days where people deny that they had something “done” in their face or whichever part of their body. Today people are not at all shy to flaunt or boast their most recent physical enhancement, after all, we live in a world where the Kardashians rule the trend of what is a picture-perfect face and body. All it takes to follow the trend is an enhanced lip for the duck mouth look, an augmented front, side, and behind for an extreme hour-glass shape body, and some intravenous toxic drips to achieve that ultimate skin glow.
From facelift, rhinoplasty, liposuction, buttock enhancement, breast augmentation, and of course, the most famous of all, Botulinum Toxin or better known as Botox, has been the go-to procedures to obtain the anticipated “ideal” look, but the list doesn’t stop there, it goes on and on, it seems like in case we don’t like something about our appearance cosmetic science has an answer for it. But does this solve one’s desire to be “more” of what he or she is, or does it create a hole of unsatisfactory to achieve the unknown? You might be wondering if this page has turned into another blog site, no I am not here to throw shades at the Kardashians, my apologies for that, I just can’t help but get carried away with the recent screenplay I have read. A futuristic world not far away from our reality. Where natural is boring and plastic is real, where age defies time and people corrupted with an endless obsession, Yoann Kimfoko’s extraordinary hair-raising and gripping drama thriller “Botox Fiction”.
I have never read anything like this before, and I am pleading for more. It was as if Yoann Kimfoko brought me to the future. And this tomorrow world may be the ultimate dream future to many, but the repercussions that entail with it is the highest test of being a human, particularly a parent. Our director/writer welcomed me to the household of Marilyn and Kevin both obsessed with self beautification through physical enhancement. They were blessed with twin girls, Euridisse and Daphné. Immortality has taken over Marilyn and Kevin, but not their skin, and their only chance of surviving their deteriorating skin is to have a daughter they can send to the Paradisum and later harvest her skin for their own.
Creepy huh, I was hell creeped out! Imagine your parents will raise you just to peel the skin off you, but it was so good I can not stop reading. It was intriguing, adventurous, and exciting until the last page. I also fancy how the setting was described. I picture it in an over the top retro-avant-garde setting where all the immortal people fit in like characters in a wallpaper and Daphné’s beauty stands out among all the time. This screenplay is well-thought out, certainly exemplifies a promising feature film or series. I thought after Nip/Tuck in 2010 I wouldn’t be able to find anything like it, but Yoann Kimfoko proved me otherwise, she even gave me something more enticing and flavorful. Fingers crossed for the upcoming chapters of this awesome screenplay.
