Pierce Brosnan's year: flesh-and-blood fantasies
Pierce Brosnan in 1985: the dream body unleashes fantasies between hedonism and skepticism. What's the point of a year of perfection?
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Pierce Brosnan's year: what would you do with the perfect body (and why it wouldn't last)
The question sounds like idle coffee talk, but there's substance to it. A sorcerer grants you Pierce Brosnan's 1985 body —the quintessence of the eighties heartthrob— for one year. What would an ordinary mortal do with such a shell?
The answers range from the rawest hedonism to cynical skepticism. Some don't hesitate: endless sens, scamming pensions out of retirees, stuffing themselves with junk food until they get back the body of a regular forum lurker. Others see the trap: the pressure of perfection, the superficiality of how people treat you, the certainty that even then you can't escape being treated like trash if the profile is fake.
Some see it as a social experiment: setting up a Tinder with photos of the actor and finding that the treatment changes radically. Or admitting that other people's beauty isn't always desired, but admired from the outside: "My vvife doesn't see the appeal," says one skeptic.
Behind the joke lurks a real discomfort: the canon of perfection suffocates too. Brosnan once confessed he would have preferred a face with more scars, more of a "tough guy" look. Perfect beauty, it seems, comes with its own bill.
Between the desire to go all in on cr0sin and the awareness that the year will end, the thread makes it clear that, in front of the mirror, nobody really knows what to do with the dream body. Maybe the best thing is to study it —business studies, someone suggests— and cash in on it. Or go back to normality, which carries no pressure.
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The question sounds like idle coffee talk, but there's substance to it. A sorcerer grants you Pierce Brosnan's 1985 body —the quintessence of the eighties heartthrob— for one year. What would an ordinary mortal do with such a shell?
The answers range from the rawest hedonism to cynical skepticism. Some don't hesitate: endless sens, scamming pensions out of retirees, stuffing themselves with junk food until they get back the body of a regular forum lurker. Others see the trap: the pressure of perfection, the superficiality of how people treat you, the certainty that even then you can't escape being treated like trash if the profile is fake.
Some see it as a social experiment: setting up a Tinder with photos of the actor and finding that the treatment changes radically. Or admitting that other people's beauty isn't always desired, but admired from the outside: "My vvife doesn't see the appeal," says one skeptic.
Behind the joke lurks a real discomfort: the canon of perfection suffocates too. Brosnan once confessed he would have preferred a face with more scars, more of a "tough guy" look. Perfect beauty, it seems, comes with its own bill.
Between the desire to go all in on cr0sin and the awareness that the year will end, the thread makes it clear that, in front of the mirror, nobody really knows what to do with the dream body. Maybe the best thing is to study it —business studies, someone suggests— and cash in on it. Or go back to normality, which carries no pressure.
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