Documentary Description
Louis Theroux travels out to Los Angeles to check out the world of
plastic surgery, where breast enhancements, tummy tucks, muscle
implants and the like are common procedures.
Spending time in the surgeries of several plastic surgeons, Louis
meets the doctors who carry out the operations and the people who feel
they need work – whether it is a man looking to make his muscles look
larger or a woman preparing to undergo surgery as part of improving her
life. On this occasion though, Louis also undergoes a procedure
himself to experience it firsthand.
If anyone else decided to have surgery as part of a film about
plastic surgery I would be very cynical and assume the worst but I
think Louis Theroux is unlikely to be accused of cheap tricks or
gimmicks. Mostly he does a good job of getting in with his subjects and
bringing them out in front of the cameras; one could accuse him of
manipulating them perhaps but I think that is too harsh a description.
Here he does enough away from the gimmick of having liposuction to
justify it as quite a small part of the show. The rest is interesting
if not fascinating. Naturally the patients make for the most
interesting scenes and some of them are curious and quite sad. Some are
easy targets but Theroux’s soft touch prevents it feeling like he is
getting at them.
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