3) Characters and their transformation

Uglies

Scott Westerfeld is an American author of science fiction who was born in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. In 2005, he published Uglies, a best-seller which is the first tome of an eponymous trilogy whose second tome is called Pretties and whose third tome is called Specials. Uglies is about Tally Younglood, a fifteen-year-old girl, who lives in a future dystopian world. Indeed, in this society people are considered as ''Ugly'' until they have a cosmetic surgery to become ''Pretty'' on their sixteenth birthday. Yet, this cosmetic surgery turns out to be a manipulation organised by society in order to control the population. Moreover, this surgery changes your personnality and your way of thinking. At first, Tally refuses to believe it in so far as she has always wanted to be '' Pretty '' and is willing to have the cosmetic surgery. But later, one of her friends called Shay decides to flee a few days before her sixteenth birthday so as not to have the cosmetic surgery. Unlike what Tally thinks, a lot of people decide not to have the surgery and flee as soon as they turn sixteen, although it is forbidden because the surgery is obligatory, to a god forsaken spot called The Smoke. This town is a few days away from Tally's town and its inhabitants are all '' Uglies '' who have refused to have the cosmetic surgery and therefore have decided to stay '' Ugly ''. From now on, Tally is going to choose if it is whether better to stay and have the cosmetic surgery or better to refuse to become '' Pretty '' and join the '' Uglies '' in The Smoke.

6) The world of imagination.

Inception

Inception is an action and science-fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, which was released in 2010, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Dominic Cobb, Ellen Page as Ariane, Marion Cotillard as Mallorie Cobb and Cillian Murphy as Robert Michael Fischer Junior. It deals with Dominic Cobb, an extractor (that is to say, someone who infiltrates people's dreams in order to get an information in particular out of them), who goes into exile so as to flee the police. Cobb's wife, Mallorie, has been found dead and some proofs make the police thinks Cobb is guilty, that's why he is sought. Saito (Ken Watanabe), who is a businessman and who knows him because Cobb previously visited his subconscious, tells him that he will delete those accusations on condition that Cobb agrees to perform an '' inception '' on Robert Michael Fischer Junior, owing to his father, Maurice Fischer (Pete Postlethwaite) who is dying and, consequently, is going to pass along his business to his son. Saito would like, by the way of the inception (implanting an idea in somebody's subconscious through his dreams), that Fischer Junior let his father's business (which competes with Saito's one) down in order to create his own company, despite his father's one is very successful. Cobb accepts, since he wants to come back home in Los Angeles where he left his two children, Philippa and James, with his parents-in-law. What's more, he would like this mission to be the last one and to stop his carreer. Then, Cobb will gather his team made up of his usual colleagues (except for Ariane) and they'll go on adventures where reality and dream are hardly differentiable.

 

5) Travels, initiatory journeys, exile.

Lord of the Flies

Lord Of The Flies is a drama and black and white film directed by Peter Brook, based on William Golding's novel of the same name, starring James Aubrey and Tom Chapin as the main actors. It was shot in 1961 but was only released two years later, in 1963. This film adaptation deals with a group of British schoolboys stranded on a desert island after they had survived a plane crash. They are left with no adults in the context of the Second World War. As they want to succeed in remaining civilized British boys, they start to etablish rules and to vote for a leader in order to create their own micro-society. The boys are divided into two groups : the first one, managing by Ralph (who is made chief), build shelters and stay by the fire while the second one, managing by Jack, hunt to feed everyone. But a rivalry starts growing between Ralph and Jack as they both want to be in charge. Jack and his group gradually turn into savages whereas Ralph tries to keep his group civilized, so as to behave as they were taught during their upbringing. Finally, this hostility will lead to an unexpected and bloody climax.
The title is referring to the emblem of Jack's group : the head of a wild pig drove into a stick, which attracts a lot of flies since it is dead.