Netflix’s ‘Uglies’ Movie Vs. Book: What’s Different?
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the movie Uglies. Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies has made it to the big screen at long last.
After its publication in 2005, the first novel of four by the author gathered a big readership as a precursor to YA dystopia stories like The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner and more.
The story follows Tally Youngblood, who lives in a society that values face symmetry over anything else. All citizens within the society receive a mandatory surgical operation that makes them “pretty,” evening out their facial flaws and physiques.
Throughout the books, Tally gets an outside perspective on the operation that she once wanted more than anything else, first from a community of rebels who have escaped various cities to live a simpler life in a community they call The Smoke.
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