Cosmetic Surgery In The Movie 'American Mary'

GETTING UNDER THE KNIFE

Watching a movie can only tell us so much about how reality has been incorporated into fiction. After watching American Mary, a Canadian horror film by the Soska Sisters, I have become curious as to why people actually do choose to undergo cosmetic surgery or in this case, body modification. The movie revolves around Mary, a surgeon who has left medical school, who became a body modification surgeon. Some examples of the people in the movie would include a lady that resembles Betty Boop, a woman who wants to be similar to a doll and twins who want to have their arms exchanged and horns implanted on their foreheads.

Cosmetic Surgery is the procedure done to restore or improve one’s physical appearance. The use of surgery to have an actualization of a want tends to be unneeded since it is not in line with the purpose of reestablishing what was lost or damaged. Although cosmetic surgery intends to be used for restoration purposes, many people have abused it for the sake of vanity. Cosmetic surgery also has good and bad effects on the person in many different aspects.

The first function of cosmetic surgery is to correct and to undo damage done to one’s face or body. Cosmetic surgery restores disfigurement resulting from an accident such as a car crash wherein the face may suffer an injury.

Cosmetic surgery can also be used to make one look more normal coming from a disfigured phase. Facial surgery was done to children with Down’s syndrome to make them look “normal” (Davis, 2003). In this context, it is still under a medical condition in which cosmetic surgery has become an option for the patient to look more “normal”. Charlie Cardillo, a 15-year-old boy with Down’s syndrome, had been bullied for most of h...

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...cosmetic surgery has been created to bring back the features to its original condition there are still those who avail of it to recreate themselves. Cosmetic surgery has an intention of restoration and to achieve a normal look for those who are unfortunate to be born disfigured. There are good benefits such as an increase in beauty, self-esteem, confidence and monetary benefits. Aside from this, there are negative consequences such as a chance of a failing operation, scars and a risk of complications arising. In addition, a person who is an addict may choose to undergo cosmetic surgery even if it is not needed and even if there is a great risk. Perhaps something can be done to regulate the accessibility of undergoing cosmetic surgery to reduce complications. The explanations may be different but getting under the knife be should not be a tool to recreate one’s self.