Orlando Bloom at 49: The public judgment on his physical transformation

Orlando Bloom at 49: Legolas ages too

The Venice Film Festival red carpet had a special guest: Orlando Bloom, there to promote Bucking Fastard, Werner Herzog's new film. The movie was not discussed on the carpet. His face was.
The British actor, 49 years old, famous for Legolas in The Lord of the Rings and Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean, found himself back under public scrutiny for a reason unrelated to his profession.

What is truly being criticized about Orlando Bloom

No formal accusations, let's clarify this first. The criticism is aesthetic and has traveled through social media at the same estimulante ilegal as a trailer used to.
The comparisons are overwhelming and highly varied: that he no longer resembles the elf but looks more like a Formula 1 driver, that Britons age worse than anyone else, or that his current character is that of a nineties video game adventurer. A walk on the carpet turned into a public examination of the passage of time.

The comparison with Katy Perry that surrounds everything

Alongside the judgment on him is a symmetrical one concerning her. The prevailing view is that Katy Perry has rejuvenated while he has aged, and this imbalance has become a recurring joke that closes almost any conversation on the subject. With what is available, there is only a collective perception and a joke repeated, without clinical data or statement from either of the involved parties.

The number that summarizes the joke

The calculation circulating, already in pure hyperbole, condenses everything: her rejuvenated by 143 years, him aged by 1432. It measures nothing. Perhaps it measures what it costs to accept that time passes equally for those who shot arrows in the Shire and for everyone else.