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Dumb Opening Premise.

posted 2 months ago by TheCatman (277)
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In the beginning, it says that society decided to cure inequality by making everyone perfect.

However, you must wait until you are old enough to get the surgery to make you physically perfect looking.

Nothing wrong with that idea for a science fiction film BUT all of the people waiting for surgery are treated like garbage until they get the surgery. That means, at the beginning of their lives, literally the entire population of the world is discriminated against, lol.

It's not just SOME people but ALL people and there's no psychological damage done by treating children horribly because most are so happy to be perfect by the time they are adults and at that point your personality is set.

If they had tweaked the idea a bit, it would have been better.

Also, it's amusing that the lead actress and supporting "uglies" were cast because they were considered ugly.

[–] Shibez (910) 2 months ago

Also, it's amusing that the lead actress and supporting "uglies" were cast because they were considered ugly."

They weren't cast because they're ugly...it's clear that the ones who undergo the "procedure" are so filtered to look like they had some sort of futuristic plastic surgery.

[–] TheCatman (277) 2 months ago

The actors playing the beautiful people weren't CGI creations, they all looked like models.

That's because they probably were.

If you look at the cast, they look much like their characters, so they are "beautiful" model types and the main actress is not, thus she was cast because she is ugly.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (17729) a month ago

Wait, did they think people would buy Joey King as being 'ugly'?

[–] TheCatman (277) a month ago

She's not ugly but below average with a round head and a squashed face.

Dominque Pinon

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684500/

Could be her male counterpart.