To think that Poor Things is actually a seriously fucked up film?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Spoilers obvs

Basic plot summary- pregnant woman trapped in an abusive marriage attempts suicide by jumping from a bridge. Frankenstein-type scientist retrieves her body, transplants the unborn baby’s brain into her head and brings her back to life. This child-woman is then basically abducted by a dodgy bloke who teaches her all about the joys of fucking, she very naively gives all their money away and because they are now broke and she enjoys sex so very much, she becomes a prostitute, whilst still having the mental age of a young child.

There’s no denying Emma Stone is brilliant in the role, but AIBU to think that it is otherwise one completely messed up Freudian nightmare of a movie?!

It's utterly bonkers! Bloody brilliant though.

Yes!!! And I hate it when people try and justify this crap as art or "the times they were in" or anything else.
Like why do people's minds even conjure up this shit?

If I had this idea or half the disgusting shit people think of these days I would be way too embarrassed and ashamed of my brain to discuss it let alone make a movie!!

woman learns about sex in a brothel and just wants to fuck and yay she feels no shame how convenient

no surprise the writer, director and producer are men 🙄

I finally watched it and wished I hadn’t bothered though sets and costumes were fantastic

Just because you personally find something disgusting or embarrassing that doesn't mean it's not art.

….ah but it’s art don’t you know

..or maybe just a load of misogynistic bullshit, dressed up in fancy costumes, with added dancing

I've never seen this film. Not sure if im intrigued or weirded out now😂

So basically. They make her a child in an adults body and she becomes a prostitute ? With the mind of a baby?

If so I'm with you who thinks of that?

Oh yeah it is totally weird, I agree

I haven't seen the film but the book was, from what I remember, very good. I always thought it more about her thoughts on fairness, injustice and right and wrong from the point of view of somebody who has not learned shame or hatred or inequality, but had the access to the world of as adult, so had the ability to challenge such things.

It's not not art is it.

"If I had this idea or half the disgusting shit people think of these days I would be way too embarrassed and ashamed of my brain to discuss it let alone make a movie!!"
Oh do your homework; the movie is actually based on a novel written by Alasdair Grey which won the Whitbread Award in 1992. It's not just a "these days" phenomenon conjured up yesterday!

Need go see this now

I didn't read it quite that way - I felt it was more about her learning about life under men - she caged by her creator, runs away to find freedom, finds her liberator weak and needy and still a cage, meets people who broaden her mind, ends up broke, become a prostitute because she has no money - the alternative is to return to needy man, she quite likes sex so whatever - realises 'sexual liberation' (read Only Fans) is yet another trap disguised as empowerment, returns to her original cage better aware and more worldly but still caged - to educated her replacement like a mother.

women can't win - I liked it

Yes also this

It's on Disney

I am gutted as I paid good money to see this Shite a few weeks ago

I really didn't need to see Emma stone naked and rutting quite so much. Pity if that's what you need to do to get an Oscar these days.

It’s bonkers but I thought it was brilliant. Amazingly creative, incredibly well acted, really funny in places, and completely unique. I can totally see why it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea though.

I thought it was fascinating (but about 30 minutes too long). She starts off with a baby's brain in an adults body but it ages rapidly till her mental age catches up with her physical age as she sees more of the <bizarre> world and the increasingly horrible men within it.

I like weird films and expected to like this but… I am half way through and can’t stand it! I appreciate it is different and kind of creative but it’s too weird and creepy and I am really not sure what people like about it.

It reminds me of that fact that gets trotted out about some famous art gallery having ‘more nudes on the walls than paintings by female artists’. It might be art but it’s still all about the male gaze and male sexual fantasies about dopey two-dimensional biddable fuckable young women.

It’s still a man’s world. They gussy it up with art house credentials but it’s still Andrew Tate values underneath.

If you think this is weird then check out some of lanthimos’ other work. Dogtooth is particularly good/weird.

Isn’t that just a convenience to make it okay to fuck her? There’s no reason inside the conceit of the movie that the baby brain should age more quickly, it’s just added on to make it okay that the audience are asked to buy into a child in a sexual relationship because their body has matured early.
sorry, not attacking your comment in particular, just musing.

I got 5 mins in and gave up. Sometimes you just don't gel with a film.

Quite apart from the whole prostitution is a great career choice for broke women with a high sex drive (ie sex work is work) subplot- this woman is brought back to life against her knowledge or consent and has no idea that she has her own baby’s brain in her head.

Fucked. Up.

Had to give it up after less than 10 minutes on the grounds of gothic weird shit. Now know I really wouldn't have enjoyed it. WTF?

Brilliant film

@Bazinga007 why do you think it’s a brilliant film? Have you read the previous posts on this thread? What do you think of them?

Why does she need to agree with what others think?