There isn't much to get really.
Lady with the brain of a toddler and the body of her suicided mother learns about the world, then decides to become a prostitute. Also Mark Ruffalo appears partway through and completely derails the movie.
Social norms are dumb and limiting and can hardly be justified when you really think about it. Question them, defy them, and lead your best life in spite all the actors that will try to limit your freedom
Yes that is probably why the protagonist for this premise has to be woman
Imagine if it was a man acting on his instincts in an unfiltered way >rapes first woman he sees >he experiences post-nut clarity and either wonders about life and the universe and everything or just naps
>and back
She did literally go back to the character named god but I didn't get any spiritual or existential tones from that. No epiphany or anything. Also it has an entire other act with the husband tacked on afterwards. How does that fit into the journey?
I didn't say there was an epiphany, if you look around you people are crying out for meaning, engaging in religious thinking but lacking true spirituality. In fact thinking about it she sort of steps into god's place, becoming a surgeon herself. That's how I saw it.
Experiencing the husband was the choice faced by post ideological man: submit to other humans or find your own way to fill the void of meaning left by the death of god.
this film is the most thematically packed film that has come out in recent years. idk if it's because they perhaps tried to preserve the thematic composition of the source material or because of the director's vision, but I really enjoyed that. idk if I agree with the messages, but I liked that it makes you use your brain.
Two things
I really liked the film, it is also a social commentary about the ultra rich being phisically cut off from us poors, or heading in that direction
1. god is an irredeemable character, because he had a healthy infant who he decided to cut its brain out for the sake on an experiment, which ruined the child's life (having an already old body to enjoy, and also setting up sexual exploitation (literal five year old gets to work at a brothel))
2. when they implant the goat's brain into the body of the sadist guy, in fact what you're left with is a goat that's being tortured in a human's body, while the sadist enjoying a relatively quick and peaceful death
I was never bored and would probably give it 8/10 but there are some aspects to the character that make no sense.
She's supposedly a kid, but in conversations she shows the cunning, sarcasm, and wit of a highly educated adult.
Also she supposedly doesn't have a negative association with sex so is less reluctant and holding back. But there's no reason why the brothel would be enjoyable for her. It's just some weird nympho fantasy.
>She's supposedly a kid, but in conversations she shows the cunning, sarcasm, and wit of a highly educated adult
That's basically cope so audiences would not be too weirded out and distracted. The point of the premise is not that she is a child with an adult body, but an adult with a child's mind, unfiltered, curious, capricious and unhibited, but also with the possibility to have agency >there's no reason why the brothel would be enjoyable for her
she treats the thing both as a necessity but also a chance to explore another facet of life/culture/her sexuality. I think it's consistent
Something fisheye this way comes. The magnificently artificial dialogue, broken and reassembled, that issues from the voice of Emma Stone—as the protagonist, Bella Baxter, who has an infant’s brain implanted in her adult head and remasters English, heuristically, at a furious pace—is the remarkable work of the screenwriter Tony McNamara, and it’s a notable literary creation. Stone gives the awkward yet expressive constructions an energetic, ingenuous lilt, and whenever she speaks the movie comes to life. But the movie’s director, Yorgos Lanthimos, is not content with a linguistic bildungsroman. The movie, an adaptation of a novel by the Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, set in a steampunk version of the Victorian era, is a “Frankenstein” tweak: Bella is a woman whose corpse is bought by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), a famed surgeon who performs the brain transplant, thereby giving her the physical capacities and desires of an adult but the intellectual abilities and social skills of a baby—and also the prodigiously steep learning curve.
In Lanthimos’s jejune fantasy, what’s most important about this adult-child chimera is sex. The infantile Bella quickly discovers sexual pleasure, at first self-pleasuring and then, as she socializes with something like an adolescent verve, having sex with men, utterly unconstrained by prevailing moral codes, of which she has learned nothing at all, in scenes that Lanthimos films with a leering sensationalism. Godwin plans to marry Bella off to his priggish young assistant, Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef), but she runs away with Godwin’s lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a libertine who takes advantage of her utter lack of inhibition but is also tormented by her oblivious sexual casualness and by her lack of social grace. (Bella blithely introduces an elderly woman to Duncan as a “new friend who has not been fricked in twenty years.”)
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At root, “Poor Things” is a Rousseauian sexual rhapsody, imagining sexuality—especially female sexuality—in a state of nature. But while it might seem to offer a tribute to female sexuality liberated from men’s control, its flamboyant, flimsy satire continually trivializes its themes and essentializes the woman at its center.
It’s hard to tell what Lanthimos enjoys more, seeing Duncan get his comeuppance or seeing Bella have sex. In any case, it’s a movie of his adolescent jollies, which he dresses up in overbearingly ornate décor (which extends to seas and skies as well), an elaborate setting that has earned the movie a nomination for Best Production Design.
Lanthimos’s style comes without substance; it’s simply ornamental, imposingly garish, insignificant. (A contrast here with Wes Anderson, whose “Asteroid City” received no nominations in any category.) And, as so often, Lanthimos is over-reliant on fish-eye lenses (extreme wide-angle ones that distort straight lines into curves) to embrace the entire set, as if he were conducting real-estate tours of his scenery. As for Stone, her performance is the reason to see the movie, and her Best Actress nomination is reasonable, but her choice of directors has, so far, brought her showcases for virtuosity without depth. Sometimes the truest and strongest emotion comes to the screen with simplicity, even understatement.
best movie ive seen in a while but all the sexual liberation feminist shit i can’t pinpoint the intention behind it. also just an overall hopeless soul poisoning experience, kinda hate that i enjoyed it
Emma Stone is disgusting in this movie. She has saggy old lady breasts, skinny granny legs, gross knees and disgusting bunions. There is nothing attractive about her in her current state.
Feminists have the brains of infant's, think that they are owning men by having sex with as many of them as possible, and can only continue the legacy left to them by a man.
The movie was fantastic honestly, my only issue with it is the last section with the womans ex husband was too rushed
I couldn’t give a shit about the movies politics or if it’s feminist shit or any new movie for that matter. I’m not looking for anything new from Hollywood to resonate with, all my favorite movies and shows already came out long ago and I’ve already accepted that new shit isn’t for me to relate to
she's a poor things
Hot woman with baby brain = perfect woman
First part of that equation is missing though.
there's nothing to get
we know
Have sex incel
There isn't much to get really.
Lady with the brain of a toddler and the body of her suicided mother learns about the world, then decides to become a prostitute. Also Mark Ruffalo appears partway through and completely derails the movie.
I guess I just don't understand why they made this movie. What's the message?
Social norms are dumb and limiting and can hardly be justified when you really think about it. Question them, defy them, and lead your best life in spite all the actors that will try to limit your freedom
ok rape you next week
Yes that is probably why the protagonist for this premise has to be woman
Imagine if it was a man acting on his instincts in an unfiltered way
>rapes first woman he sees
>he experiences post-nut clarity and either wonders about life and the universe and everything or just naps
lukewarm IQ take
Oh well, I guess it's better than... what would the worse kind of take be? Cold IQ take?
It's about man's journey from god to meaningless pleasure to ideology and back.
>and back
She did literally go back to the character named god but I didn't get any spiritual or existential tones from that. No epiphany or anything. Also it has an entire other act with the husband tacked on afterwards. How does that fit into the journey?
I guess she came to both understand and accept her existence and recognize her creator with acceptance and love, and to continue his work.
Yeah exactly, she comes to understand her creator, including his imperfections.
I didn't say there was an epiphany, if you look around you people are crying out for meaning, engaging in religious thinking but lacking true spirituality. In fact thinking about it she sort of steps into god's place, becoming a surgeon herself. That's how I saw it.
Experiencing the husband was the choice faced by post ideological man: submit to other humans or find your own way to fill the void of meaning left by the death of god.
Just how I interpreted it.
>submit to other humans or find your own way to fill the void of meaning left by the death of god.
Best comment ever. Be a normie, or find your true path.
There's no message. It's a horror-comedy and pretty much just Daughter of Frankenstein. I enjoyed it.
pedo
They removed all of the Scottish politics from the book
william dafoe's attempt at scottisch accent was interesting.
Forrest Gump if the moron wasn't likeable and the set was bought from a Tim Burton garage sale. Straight up stinker.
Friggin' brutal, anon.
I fully approve.
>Forrest Gump if the moron was hot and naked and the set was bought from a Tim Burton garage sale.
And that's a good thing.
Her breasts are the poor things
There's nothing to get. It appeals to prudes who don't want to be prudes.
this film is the most thematically packed film that has come out in recent years. idk if it's because they perhaps tried to preserve the thematic composition of the source material or because of the director's vision, but I really enjoyed that. idk if I agree with the messages, but I liked that it makes you use your brain.
its some weird and abstract pedophilia
Two things
I really liked the film, it is also a social commentary about the ultra rich being phisically cut off from us poors, or heading in that direction
1. god is an irredeemable character, because he had a healthy infant who he decided to cut its brain out for the sake on an experiment, which ruined the child's life (having an already old body to enjoy, and also setting up sexual exploitation (literal five year old gets to work at a brothel))
2. when they implant the goat's brain into the body of the sadist guy, in fact what you're left with is a goat that's being tortured in a human's body, while the sadist enjoying a relatively quick and peaceful death
I was never bored and would probably give it 8/10 but there are some aspects to the character that make no sense.
She's supposedly a kid, but in conversations she shows the cunning, sarcasm, and wit of a highly educated adult.
Also she supposedly doesn't have a negative association with sex so is less reluctant and holding back. But there's no reason why the brothel would be enjoyable for her. It's just some weird nympho fantasy.
>She's supposedly a kid
She isn't she learns very fast, she even goes to medicine school
So did Doogie Howser.
Information is not maturity.
>She's supposedly a kid, but in conversations she shows the cunning, sarcasm, and wit of a highly educated adult
That's basically cope so audiences would not be too weirded out and distracted. The point of the premise is not that she is a child with an adult body, but an adult with a child's mind, unfiltered, curious, capricious and unhibited, but also with the possibility to have agency
>there's no reason why the brothel would be enjoyable for her
she treats the thing both as a necessity but also a chance to explore another facet of life/culture/her sexuality. I think it's consistent
Me neither but I like caus with has female nudity
>1 of 2
Something fisheye this way comes. The magnificently artificial dialogue, broken and reassembled, that issues from the voice of Emma Stone—as the protagonist, Bella Baxter, who has an infant’s brain implanted in her adult head and remasters English, heuristically, at a furious pace—is the remarkable work of the screenwriter Tony McNamara, and it’s a notable literary creation. Stone gives the awkward yet expressive constructions an energetic, ingenuous lilt, and whenever she speaks the movie comes to life. But the movie’s director, Yorgos Lanthimos, is not content with a linguistic bildungsroman. The movie, an adaptation of a novel by the Scottish writer Alasdair Gray, set in a steampunk version of the Victorian era, is a “Frankenstein” tweak: Bella is a woman whose corpse is bought by Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), a famed surgeon who performs the brain transplant, thereby giving her the physical capacities and desires of an adult but the intellectual abilities and social skills of a baby—and also the prodigiously steep learning curve.
In Lanthimos’s jejune fantasy, what’s most important about this adult-child chimera is sex. The infantile Bella quickly discovers sexual pleasure, at first self-pleasuring and then, as she socializes with something like an adolescent verve, having sex with men, utterly unconstrained by prevailing moral codes, of which she has learned nothing at all, in scenes that Lanthimos films with a leering sensationalism. Godwin plans to marry Bella off to his priggish young assistant, Max McCandles (Ramy Youssef), but she runs away with Godwin’s lawyer, Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a libertine who takes advantage of her utter lack of inhibition but is also tormented by her oblivious sexual casualness and by her lack of social grace. (Bella blithely introduces an elderly woman to Duncan as a “new friend who has not been fricked in twenty years.”)
>2 of 2
At root, “Poor Things” is a Rousseauian sexual rhapsody, imagining sexuality—especially female sexuality—in a state of nature. But while it might seem to offer a tribute to female sexuality liberated from men’s control, its flamboyant, flimsy satire continually trivializes its themes and essentializes the woman at its center.
It’s hard to tell what Lanthimos enjoys more, seeing Duncan get his comeuppance or seeing Bella have sex. In any case, it’s a movie of his adolescent jollies, which he dresses up in overbearingly ornate décor (which extends to seas and skies as well), an elaborate setting that has earned the movie a nomination for Best Production Design.
Lanthimos’s style comes without substance; it’s simply ornamental, imposingly garish, insignificant. (A contrast here with Wes Anderson, whose “Asteroid City” received no nominations in any category.) And, as so often, Lanthimos is over-reliant on fish-eye lenses (extreme wide-angle ones that distort straight lines into curves) to embrace the entire set, as if he were conducting real-estate tours of his scenery. As for Stone, her performance is the reason to see the movie, and her Best Actress nomination is reasonable, but her choice of directors has, so far, brought her showcases for virtuosity without depth. Sometimes the truest and strongest emotion comes to the screen with simplicity, even understatement.
>Feminist garbage
>Makes her father suffer and lives as a prostitute
>Only to come back to daddy and the cuck beta provider
I can't believe this was a book written by a man, clearly he was a gayget
glad he killed himself before he saw this prostitute make a prostitute film
best movie ive seen in a while but all the sexual liberation feminist shit i can’t pinpoint the intention behind it. also just an overall hopeless soul poisoning experience, kinda hate that i enjoyed it
maybe i’ll go see this tonight
>2h20m runtime
my bladder won’t handle this i fricking hate theaters
It was released digitally already, you don't have to go anywhere.
maybe you have prostate cancer you should check it out
Emma Stone is disgusting in this movie. She has saggy old lady breasts, skinny granny legs, gross knees and disgusting bunions. There is nothing attractive about her in her current state.
Low test
Serious question.
What was the logic behind transplanting a goat's brain into Alfie's body, instead of God's brain to save his life?
Feminists have the brains of infant's, think that they are owning men by having sex with as many of them as possible, and can only continue the legacy left to them by a man.
All the male characters found her more sexually attractive when she was a child.
Funny that.
The movie was fantastic honestly, my only issue with it is the last section with the womans ex husband was too rushed
I couldn’t give a shit about the movies politics or if it’s feminist shit or any new movie for that matter. I’m not looking for anything new from Hollywood to resonate with, all my favorite movies and shows already came out long ago and I’ve already accepted that new shit isn’t for me to relate to