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Brendon Holder's avatar

*SPOILER ALERT* I also struggled with Poor Things despite being Yorgos Hive DOWN. The film is near perfect on a craft level - the dialogue, the plotting, the acting! However, I couldn’t get past the conceit of how she was revived which when coupled with the gratuitous sex scenes.. felt gross and inappropriate considering the grave differences between her mental faculties and the men who had sex with her. I have to think that Yorgos is a talented enough filmmaker that this was intentional but it’s left unacknowledged, for the audience to sit with themselves. Not all art needs to be moral to have value but I wanted more insight into how Bella felt about it all to make me believe the power position she ended up at the end.

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Madison Huizinga's avatar

Honored to be included in your reading list among so many other talented writers! <3

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