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?!

How you feel hangs on whether you see it as a woman with a babies brain or a baby with a woman's body.

@Alcyoneus

How do you know they are Paedos the film director's are behind Poor Things film?

Where is the evidence 🤔 proof for that then?

Just cause you don't agree with a film themes and ideas,
are not your cup of tea,

You need to back up allegations like that ?

Just cause you on social media doesn't mean no-one will challenge you..

@VampireWeekday you speak complete sense about this film, I'm in full agreement! But you've worded it much better!

I was looking forward to watch it but I now I don't.

Sounds grim.

I don’t think I could watch this. Sounds like a waste of time and oh what a surprise directed and produced by men. Thankyou for saving me a few hours of my life op! X

I turned it off after ten minutes too, life’s too short. Bothered that I paid to watch it and its free on Disney but that’s life I guess.

It was sick, twisted and very very dull. Worst film Ive seen in a long time.

I snjoyed it - I found it thought provoking and quirky with brilliant design and acting. Read plot/premise very much like @VampireWeekday.

And this, Ladies, is why society is slowly dissolving. Making judgements based on hysterical posts on social media
'sounds paedo??

@SweetFemaleAttitude
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I thought it was trying terribly hard to be arty so the nudity, sex and kind of pedophilia didn’t matter.

I found it an uncomfortable watch and as standard with the Oscars, a white person playing someone with a disability wins.

I really enjoyed the film. The whole point of it was to convey that women, from girlhood, are being infantilised, patronised and sexualised all at the same time. Bella’s body was a battleground. To say it’s misogynistic and ‘peado’ (especially without even seeing in some cases here) is, in my opinion, lazy.

Oh god, I’d forgotten about the scene with the boys watching. I remember really hoping their part was filmed entirely separately!

Thanks for that précis of the plot OP - I now know not to waste any time watching it. 🙂

I really failed to see the feminism in it. There was little point to many of the sex scenes, in fact it could've shortened the film to a more manageable length. To me, it felt to me the men making the movie simply wanted ES naked as much as possible. And no, prostitution is not female empowerment ffs. Also, possibly bad acting or direction, but Bella's brain maturing to an "appropriate" age is not clear at all. Even when she's fucking Mark Ruffalo on the daily, she's still walking and talking like a child?!

I haven’t seen it yet but are they really saying she enjoyed sex as a prostitute because we all women’s sexuality doesn’t often work like that. And with a child’s brain? Seriously? 😭 am I wrong?

Well that’s sick. Is it a pedo film then???

@Newsenmum well they try to get around it by claiming that by the time she's engaging with Marks character "her brain" is 16/17... So it makes no sense why she can't speak properly yet, waddles like a toddler and apparently cannot comprehend basic concept such as don't show private parts to strangers?! So I don't it works at all.

I read a lot of reviews about this film and there seem to be a lot of people from the "Hollywood is a bunch or paedoes and this film is about baby in woman's body blah blah blah" conspiracy camp. As on here, a lot of people did not even watch the film, of, if they watched it, they never got past the whole "baby's brain in woman's head and she is having sex" thing. I've seen it before - people zooming in on one thing and ignore the rest completely.

My understanding is - as other people already explained - the "baby brain" was a device to create a person who is a blank slate. Weird, but would it be different if, for example, the scientist had created a woman with, say, a computer brain that is clean and has to gain a variety of experiences to "mature"? This is a surrealist film with a complex and deep message, the baby brain thing is just a detail, not the meaning. It adds to the whole grossness and grotesqueness of the film, but its not something that the film is about. Its a shame that such a great and elaborate production is reduced to just that.

You're not allowed to say that. If you do, you're hard of thinking, miss the point of this wonderfully feminist movie and only enjoy crappy mainstream films according to the many with superior intellect on here.

That was my take also. Put far more eloquently than I could.

She was abused and let down by men but she found a way to create a better existence for herself and those around her. I loved it. Thought Emma Stone was uninhibited and gave the voice of the child beautifully.

I understand this idea but then why would she act like a baby?

@AngeloMysterioso

I think 🤔 it's like art house film equivalent to a work of art,
Such as abstract at times, other aspects surrealism feel and look visually and controversial modern art provocative aspects too..