The NYT reports on the dark side of plastic surgery:
The camera follows Mona as she adjusts to life as an amputee, hoisting herself in and out of her bathtub, reaching for groceries located on tall shelves and maneuvering herself from car seat to wheelchair. (According to the film, she settled a malpractice suit against the center where she had surgery.) "I was told that this was such a simple procedure. No downtime," Mona says. "I never recovered and never will." Lucille, another of the documentary's victims, says she believes her facelifts have made breathing and swallowing difficult, and offers a similar sentiment. "I never wanted cosmetic surgery," she says. "In hindsight, it was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life." And that is the documentary's real theme, that cosmetic surgery is bad — an anti-vanity message straight out of the Old Testament, or at least rooted in the fable of Narcissus.