Keith Powers

'Uglies' Can't Alleviate Appearance Anxiety at All

Before watching this film, I had a pretty limited understanding of Scott Westerfeld's Uglies—it’s a YA dystopian story like The Hunger Games or Divergent. It came out a few years earlier, but it was adapted into a film later than both. After watching the film, I think there's a reason for that. My biggest takeaway is a question: does a simple story that could be summed up in two sentences really need to be stretched into a 100-minute movie? Or even a franchise? Maybe it does? We often forget tha