A young girl is kidnapped while waiting for her self-absorbed father in the car when he’s visiting a friend. Who has kidnapped her?
Ugly is a dark movie where we only follow self-absorbed people who should burn in hell! All the characters except the little girl are unsympathetic.
Her father wants to become an actor, and her mother has found a new man who is a tough cop who hates the biological father after the biological father gave him a proper beating when they were younger. The mother seldom leaves the house, and she’s deeply depressed.
I liked Ugly, but it’s a movie that offers some strange storytelling when some characters steps over the line, and you don’t feel like they are punished for being bad. All the adults in the movie are cruel people. They are greedy. They are self-absorbed, and a child should never grow up with such people around them. That’s when you realize how innocent children are when you see the cruel people in Ugly.
We don’t see much of the girl who has been kidnapped. We see her in the opening minutes, after that we don’t see her because it’s about the adults and what kind of people they are.
It’s interesting to see what greed can do to people, and that’s something Ugly wants to tell us. All the adults are self-absorbed, and they completely forget an innocent child who should bring the adults together. But one doesn’t feel love for the child in Ugly. This is indeed an ugly world!
It’s only in some scenes that the biological father shows feelings for his child. But then we see what kind of self-absorbed idiot he was in the past and still is when he’s only thinking of becoming an actor. His best friend is not exactly much of a friend, either. And the tough cop has done some things in the past, which also makes him unsympathetic.
There are several scenes here that should have been explored more, and we should have seen the consequences of some serious incidents. But besides that, this is an engaging movie that you should watch if you like dark movies. And the actors are excellent.