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If I give you one more face lift you're going to be able to blink your lips!
— Doctor Packman · The First Wives Club
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
A surgeon warns a patient that another facelift would pull the skin so tight that the lips might start to blink. The exaggeration is a sharp, comic jab at overdone cosmetic surgery, with the blunt tone of someone who has already gone too far.
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