Poor Things

Poor Things

Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 141 minutes
  • Genre: Comedy, Romance
  • Stars: Ramy Youssef, Charlie Hiscock, Damien Bonnard, Jeremy Wheeler, Mark Ruffalo, Jack Barton, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Abbott, Jerrod Carmichael, Suzy Bemba, Margaret Qualley, Kathryn Hunter, Wayne Brett, Anders Grundberg, Vivienne Soan, David Bromley, Miles Jovian, Roderick Hill, Emma Stone, John Locke
  • Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
 Comments
  • Enchorde - 4 July 2024
    Provoking and controversial
    This was an experience. I'm not sure of what really, as this is no easy movie. I didn't love it, but it was intruiging and certainly not just another movie. If you want to see something different, this might interest you. But Do NOT watch it together with anyone you are totally comfortable to watch weird and provoking themes. Do not watch it with your kids our parents. Really, don't. The safest thing to say is that this is a controversial movie. The trailers I have seen doesn't really give the right feel for the film as it is much more adult, dark and provoking than the trailers.

    The story follows Bella Baxter, a Frankenstein-ish creation of the brilliant but disturbed surgeon God-win. Bella, with a childs mind, literally, is extremely naive. Growing up, well mentally, but in a grown-up body she is confronted by some of the darker sides of human desire and society. There is a lot, really much, of sex. However, it is not erotic. The movie has a very different take on dealing with sex. It also lifts the theme of privilige and poverty and inequality. There are some fun momemts when Bella with sincere naiveity reacts outside social convention. But it is not a comedy.

    The production values are fantastic. A good cast, great acting (Stone won an Oscar) but foremost a fantastic set and visual concept. Not easy to decipher, but there are hints in the visuals to the story.

    But thought-provoking, peculiar and different as it might be, it isn't really entertaining. It is new, someting else, a piece of fresh air in the sometimes stagnant movie-stream, but not really engaging. Perhaps the story is a bit too far out of social convention. Perhaps the story is too thin at all, large portions seemed to be just a string of scenes contending with each other to be the most provoking (many times in a sexial way). The why of it, and more than the obvious motives of characters are left unexplored...
  • sunsanee - 27 June 2024
    Weird, but not the good kind
    From the trailers you think it's about a resurrected women re-learning everything about life and the bizarre journey that she goes on. This is the case, however, that's the thin plot line for what is basically porn.

    This is just weird, and tries to be shocking for the sake of being shocking, pretending to be thought provoking, but if you really think about its 'story' and that not only is the main character a full grown woman with the brain and mind if a literal baby, but that of her own baby, is beyond disturbing and perverted. This should be considered a sex crime, not a work of art or a film of entertainment.

    I also feel like this could be triggering for a lot of women, not empowering. I really wish I had not watched this.