Hadn't read any reviews and didn't know what to expect as I took my seat in the cinema. 2 hours 20 minutes later, I'd had my sensibilities thoroughly jangled by "Poor Things". A remarkable movie.
You don't see many movies like this one!
Visionary imagery - interesting interiors - like being inside a series of Viennese Succession interpretations. Bizarre and vaguely unnerving styling. Clipped and odd camera angles. A weird world has been assembled, all the more unhinging for the fact that it all looks so recognisable!
This thing is visually and morally jarring. More than equally jarring are the differences between the created world of "Poor Things", and the way that world relates to our own, or what we perceive to be our own. Poor things sits just beyond the edge of what could be our reality. Remarkable, and a little chilling.
The story is as complex or simple as you want it to be. A woman, literally ANY woman, a free woman, uninhibited by learned societal norms, desires total freedom, and achieves it.
There is a commentary going on here about "acceptable behaviour" generally. But particularly, how it seems that what is acceptable for a man to want is not, somehow, acceptable for women. Why is that? Poor Things tackles our presumptions.
Stone is first-class. Possible Oscar there. Defoe is very good. Ruffalo has a difficult script to work with. He didn't write it. But he does ok.
Poor Things packs a punch! It's an assault on the senses. Not the sort of thing your mother would want you to see!
You don't see many movies like this one!
Visionary imagery - interesting interiors - like being inside a series of Viennese Succession interpretations. Bizarre and vaguely unnerving styling. Clipped and odd camera angles. A weird world has been assembled, all the more unhinging for the fact that it all looks so recognisable!
This thing is visually and morally jarring. More than equally jarring are the differences between the created world of "Poor Things", and the way that world relates to our own, or what we perceive to be our own. Poor things sits just beyond the edge of what could be our reality. Remarkable, and a little chilling.
The story is as complex or simple as you want it to be. A woman, literally ANY woman, a free woman, uninhibited by learned societal norms, desires total freedom, and achieves it.
There is a commentary going on here about "acceptable behaviour" generally. But particularly, how it seems that what is acceptable for a man to want is not, somehow, acceptable for women. Why is that? Poor Things tackles our presumptions.
Stone is first-class. Possible Oscar there. Defoe is very good. Ruffalo has a difficult script to work with. He didn't write it. But he does ok.
Poor Things packs a punch! It's an assault on the senses. Not the sort of thing your mother would want you to see!