Spoilers ahead for the Uglies book trilogy.
On Netflix The ugly onesA rebel group known as The Smoke is set in the main city of the dystopian world of Dr. Cable (Laverne Cox) has a top secret weapon that can take down his system. Based on the first entry in Scott Westerfeld's YA book trilogy of the same name, The ugly ones' where is set in the future 16-year-old residents are forced to undergo cosmetic surgery under government orders turn into”The ugly ones“- i.e. normal people – in”Beauties,” beautiful but vain people who don’t care about anything that isn’t superficial. As in any dystopian story, there are rebels.
Directed by Joey King's Tally Youngblood, “Ugly“Who will come of age, The ugly ones' cast of characters is filled with oppressive, image-bound people who choose to live outside the city. Tally's new friend Shay (Brianne Tju) decides to move away from Dr. Cable's town and live among the rebels led by a mysterious figure named David (Keith Powers) in a remote community called The Smoke. Using Tally's former best friend-turned-Pretty Paris (Chase Stokes) as leverage, Cable convinces The ugly ones' to infiltrate protagonist The Smoke and learn more about the rebellion's secret weapon.
Smoke's Weapon is Medicine for Fine Surgery
David's parents have been working on a cure for the amazing surgery for two decades
When Tally agrees to place herself among The Smoke's rebels, the teenager believes she will find a conventional weapon. Before Tally completes her mission, Dr. Cable hints that Duma's weapon has the power to overturn the cityThe lifestyle of the beautiful and society as they know it. At first, the rebels seem quite peaceful and isolated. Although they hate the city lifestyle, they are not into raising troops or anything like that. Instead, David and his peers destroy the city's orchid fields, which leach toxins into the soil and generate renewable energy.
…damages to patients' frontal cortices interfere with their ability to care, think or function in any way.
Finally, David brings the ever-interesting Tally to meet his parents, Maddy (Charmin Lee) and Az (Jay Devon Johnson). Tally learns that David's parents once had an operation The ugly ones' She underwent surgery to transform and become beautiful. Before living outside the city limits, Maddy and Az were plastic surgeons working in the state. While Maddy was a member of the Morphology Standards Committee, Az Pretty worked more directly to make her operation safer. All their research led David's parents to realize that their colleague, Dr. Cable was more interested in the surgery's main side effect: harmful brain lesions.
Tally learns from David's parents that damage to the patients' frontal cortices interferes with their ability to care, think, or act in any way. “They are caught in a false sense of happiness,” Az explains. Maddy and Az were some of the lucky ones; gifted surgeons were given targeted treatments that reversed their Transformations and allowed them to become thinkers again. After they fled the city, Maddy and Az founded The Smoke, where they have been working for the past 20 years, to replicate the treatment. — The best weapon against cable control.
Why Smoke's Gun Will Destroy the Cable Society
Az & Maddy's Treatment May Heal the Traumatic Brain Damage of the Transformation
If Maddy and Az Pretty can successfully replicate the formula used to cure them after their surgery, The Smoke Dr. It could undermine Cable's reputation and destroy the city's core principles. Unlike the city, the Fog commune values self-acceptance and free-thinking, so it's likely that David and the rest of the rebels want to recreate the city in that image. Since the transformation dulls the minds of the Beauties and erases their individuality, Dr. Cable can handle them more easily. Brain lesions are not an unfortunate side effectbut the reason for the operation.
in theory, healing patients' brain lesions would also restore their sense of selfas well as their ability to think freely and feel deeply. As Tally knows, Peris Pretty lost everything that made her unique by undergoing surgery. However, Duma's weapon is not a simple cure. Maddy and Az express their concerns about testing the formula on human subjects, fearing that it could worsen a Beauty's brain damage or, in extreme cases, result in death. Still, the anti-Pretty serum seems to be the only weapon capable of thwarting Cable's power.
Does Cure in the Ugly Book Series Work?
Maddy Finally Finds A Permanent Solution With Tally's Help
Alas, Netflix's YA adaptation of The ugly ones It doesn't reveal if Maddy and Az's treatment is an effective or long-term solution to saving the Pretties and stopping Cable. as The ugly ones' the end of the film is explored, The substance needs a test subject who can give informed consent before he was given treatment. After all, it works by eating brain lesions, an incredibly risky procedure. At the end of the film, Tally's sacrifice is to try the cure, though the film doesn't provide any definitive answers – not yet.
There are two treatments in the books – old and new. The old method eats away at the patient's brain damage; another component of the treatment then stops the patient from all eating before the brain is damaged. Later on, Maddy creates a fictional “new treatment.“ Based on the treatment Tally's brain discovered, this second option “it bypasses the lesions and rewires the user's brain“(via The ugly ones fandom). Simply put, treatment ultimately helps to heal Beauties The ugly ones trilogy.
Source: The ugly ones Fandom
