“All my life, I wanted to be pretty.” Joey King’s Tally Youngblood recites those words in Uglies, Netflix’s new dystopian teen drama. In a futuristic world, 16-year-olds undergo a cosmetic operation to become “Pretties,” a new version of themselves that satisfies society’s beauty standards.
Pretties move across the river to live among one another in a community with no responsibilities or obligations. Without the surgery, people are known as “Uglies.” Tally has been dreaming of becoming a Pretty forever. But after learning about the government’s nefarious reasons for the surgery, Tally questions everything she’s ever known about her life.
Uglies is an adaptation of the 2005 novel by author Scott Westerfeld. It’s been a long and arduous process, but Westerfeld’s ideas in the book are finally on the big screen. In an interview with Digital Trends, Westerfeld discussed the dystopian boom of the 2000s, the dangers of social media’s unrealistic beauty
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