Dying To Be Beautiful Analysis

Dying to be Beautiful: In Pursuit of Perfection

For as long as time and lives have been recorded, depending on the culture, surgeries have been performed to “better” the recipients; although, it may have been needed in some cases. For example, in India the noses of criminals and adulterers were cut off for permanent public shame. Sushruta (an Indian Doctor) took it upon himself to fix the faces of the ex-criminals and adulterers in hopes he could encourage forgiveness and reduce public shame. His procedure required removing skin from the person’s cheeks or forehead, which was then applied to the nose. As the years passed and societies changed, the reasons to undergo plastic surgery changed too. Plastic surgery went from being used for repairing the noses of those that lost them in India, to fixing fallen soldiers
Nikolas Chugay was the second doctor to be seen. During the interview, Louis was able to meet one of Dr. Chugay’s patients; Steve. Louis asked Dr. Chugay, “Is it fair to say that Steve is kind of a creation of yours?,” referring to Doctor Frankenstein’s monster. “Small things bother me in a larger way than they do other people. If I had bags under my eyes, I just couldn’t live with it” (Steve). Steve seems to have gotten so much botox injected into his face that he now talks with a severe lisp. He has had so much work done on himself that I think he almost looks plastic. Doll-like even. The other male in the documentary, Adrian, found an interesting way of self-medicating; however, he is probably the only that saught professional help because of the emotional damage caused by his step-father. Adrian underwent multiple surgeries: top of the eyes, bottom of the eyes, cheek implants, facial filler, pectoral implants, bicep implants, tummy tuck and liposuction (in no specific order). It is sometimes amazes me to think about some of the things people are willing to do to help them feel better about themselves or just plainly look