“Looker” is a suspense / science fiction film that reviews and satire on media, advertising, television influences on the public, and absurd standards of beauty. Dr. Larry Roberts, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, is confused. The four women in the film talk about their imperfections, some of whom think the bridge of their nose needs to be a little two more millimeters higher, but they are subtle changes invisible to the naked eye. And the cosmetic surgery is therefore required. When the models later begin to die in mysterious circumstances, he discovers that they are all linked to the same advertising research firm. Digital Matrix Research uses a scoring system to rate advertising models to measure the combined visual impact of various physical properties in television advertising. Each model has a contract to scan her body to digitally create 3D computer generated models and then animate the 3D model for commercial als.
It is a 1981 film that satirizes media, advertising, television influences on the public, and absurd standards for beauty. With this demand for female perfection, the mannequins appeared in the 1950s. Such patterns of behavior were criticized by 20th-century women, fiction writers, and historians. Especially in the fashion industry, especially models, reducing models to specific, often idealized body parts. The mannequin shows this social expectation very well. Because the mannequin is built based on the female body, but the model is not exactly consistent with the female body. These models are more “perfect”, they have perfect body proportions and golden proportions shape of the face. These models are lifeless, but lifelike, just like women who really have life. It creates a sense of fear, as Freud said “… that terrible thing, it leads us back to what we knew long known and were once very familiar with.”