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Poor Things 2023

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BlockedParent2024-02-02T21:40:12Z— updated 2024-05-09T14:00:01Z

I'm disappointed. The movie looks and sounds beautiful - the costumes and the world both are very intricate. I enjoy the language that is used, how the dialogues are written and I especially love the concept of the movie. It's not something new, plenty of books cover basically the same idea of a "clean" human, who grew up without societies influence, discovering the world. Nontheless, I was intrigued. Sadly since Bella is a woman, clearly the only way for her to explore the world is through having sex with men, because how else. And that could have been fine, talking about sex and sexuality is important, but this movie just uses it as a way to make jokes and show her tits. It is shown as something great and liberating, even when grown man assault her as a child or when she works at a brothel. Besides this weird portrayal of sex, there is not much substance. A few buzz words are thrown around like socialism, worker unions etc., but the writers were happy with just mentioning this stuff. Even when talking about prostitution, the commentary is restricted to "what if the prostitues would choose who they have sex with" - what a great, elaborate thought. This shows just how little thought went into the writing. Overall there is nothing worthwhile to be found here - at best you will get an ignorant commentary about topics they clearly have never engaged with.

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@Qetyaysta I agree with every word you say.

Thank you for explaining my frustrations as I sometimes lack the movie lingo or the right english word for it. What frustrates me more is after these pretentious snobs throw at us this bore fest knowing that they are protected under the umbrella of "empowering women" and "female sexuality" while not putting much effort in , come other snobs to tell us how great it is because of the same thing and later the snobbiest of all the snobs (the awards people) to crown it as the best movie ever made.

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