I feel like if I’m looking at this movie like a directors canvas, watching them imaginatively fill the spaces with whatever whimsy and creation their imagination can come up with, this movie is a work of art. However, stepping outside of that, once the pastel skies lose their novelty and the JRPG-like towns start to all look the same, I’m left with a movie that I really didn’t find all that engaging and the story fairly unsatisfying. I looove Emma Stone and good for her for the Oscar win, but I didn’t really find her character all that layered and honestly felt like I spent two hours watching an adult toddler have a “coming of age” journey into a humanoid chatGPT wind up toy.
Reading some of the discourse, and I don’t know if I care to make a decision on whether this is some impactful feminist take on bodily autonomy or some lackluster cheap “edgy” plot where lady born yesterday discovers the power and lack there of regarding sex - but I feel like even Von Triers Nymphomaniac had more nuanced conversations around “hard jumping.”
All in all, maybe if you’re like me and watching this movie after the Oscar’s hype and general fanfare, you’ll end up disappointed too. But I think if you’re the kind of person who enjoys style over substance (which is perfectly fine) then there will be a lot to enjoy about this movie. Picture Willy wonkas chocolate factory except it’s a brothel and all the candy is covered in pubes.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2024-03-19T07:00:47Z
I feel like if I’m looking at this movie like a directors canvas, watching them imaginatively fill the spaces with whatever whimsy and creation their imagination can come up with, this movie is a work of art.
However, stepping outside of that, once the pastel skies lose their novelty and the JRPG-like towns start to all look the same, I’m left with a movie that I really didn’t find all that engaging and the story fairly unsatisfying. I looove Emma Stone and good for her for the Oscar win, but I didn’t really find her character all that layered and honestly felt like I spent two hours watching an adult toddler have a “coming of age” journey into a humanoid chatGPT wind up toy.
Reading some of the discourse, and I don’t know if I care to make a decision on whether this is some impactful feminist take on bodily autonomy or some lackluster cheap “edgy” plot where lady born yesterday discovers the power and lack there of regarding sex - but I feel like even Von Triers Nymphomaniac had more nuanced conversations around “hard jumping.”
All in all, maybe if you’re like me and watching this movie after the Oscar’s hype and general fanfare, you’ll end up disappointed too. But I think if you’re the kind of person who enjoys style over substance (which is perfectly fine) then there will be a lot to enjoy about this movie. Picture Willy wonkas chocolate factory except it’s a brothel and all the candy is covered in pubes.