Uglies
Warning!
Spoilers for Netflix’s Uglies movie and the Uglies book series ahead!
Netflix’sUgliesended with a rather ambiguous sceneso what does it mean?
During this period, Tally met Shay, a fellow Ugly celebrating the same birthday.
Of course, nothing turned out as Tally had expected.
Unfortunately, they got there too late to save everyone.
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However, she wouldn’t consent, andMaddy refused to experiment with an untested drug on an unwilling subject.
Tally had a solution to this dilemma, however.
She was still Tally, and she was ready for David to bring the cure to New Pretty Town.
In a futuristic society where everyone undergoes compulsory cosmetic surgery at 16 to become “pretty,” Tally eagerly awaits her transformation. However, when her friend goes missing, she embarks on a journey that challenges her beliefs about beauty, conformity, and rebellion, ultimately questioning the foundations of their world.
Maddy’s cure is meant to eat away the Pretty brain lesionsbut it’s risky.
Shay demonstrated how impossible a task this would be.
This is why Tally’s sacrifice was necessary.
She gave Maddy consent before going under the knife.
However, this would be nearly impossible if therealTally was entirely gone.
What Happened To Peris Is He Dead?
Tally’s best friend was the one person who could convince her to betray Shay.
So, she put him back under the knife, turning him into a superhuman soldier called a Special.
Rather than passive and content, the Special operation makes a person more aggressive.
Like Pretties, Specials' minds are altered, but in the opposite way.
However,Specials are made to be almost indestructible.
Their skeletons are reinforced and nearly unbreakable, and they heal at an alarming rate.
This is meaningful because this would have been entirely unthinkable to Tally before her experience at the Smoke.
The operation made every citizen so beautiful thateven the most attractive natural people would have been consideredugly inUglies.
People like Tally were conditioned to believe anything short of perfection was hideous.
Even without the lesions, the people inUglieswere already brainwashed.
Even without the lesions, the people in Uglies were already brainwashed.
David, on the other hand, was raised outside the city surrounded by natural faces.
The fact that Tally believed him demonstrated that she had begun to undo her brainwashing.
However,Westerfeld’sUglieswas part of a book trilogy, with a sequel calledPrettiesand a threequel titledSpecials.
The big question at the end ofUgliesis how much of the real Tally is still there.
