A 17-year-old's face becomes a battlefield where beauty standards devour their prey.
In a rhythmic, hard-edged and sometimes shocking reality, we see how plastic surgery and the cult of man-made beauty have become so ubiquitous that everyone becomes both a judge and a victim. Based on the compelling, yet disturbing, true story of a 17-year-old girl who gets cosmetic surgery.
Direction
Wolf wields rhythm like a scalpel—precise, unflinching, surgical.
Writing
True story foundation that refuses to sensationalize the horror.
Director
Christie Will Wolf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Christie Will Wolf developed this from documentary interviews with teenage cosmetic surgery patients, keeping some dialogue verbatim.
Pre-Instagram but eerily prescient: the film's 'everyone judges everyone' premise became algorithmic reality within a decade.
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