Showing posts with label Emma Stone. Show all posts
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Monday, June 17, 2024

“POOR THINGS [2023]” SHOWS SIGNS OF IMPERFECT FILM NOIR

🎥🎞️Movie Review🎞️🎥 - POOR THINGS [2023] - R - HULU - Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Written by Tony McNamara. Based on a 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. Stars Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael.

A pregnant woman (Stone) commits suicide and her body is sold to a mad scientist (Dafoe) who is able to save the body of the woman and the brain of the unborn child. He plants the child’s brain into the woman and reanimates her to life. The new woman matures quickly, learning about impulsive sexuality and losing her direction in life. She seeks adventure with a new lover (Ruffalo) through a myriad escapade of sex and has to join a French bordello, where she sleeps with all kinds of creeps and even a father in front if his children; while two little boys take notes. She did all this not only to survive, but to find a way to get her home, where when shes successful she discovers a dark secret about about her real life and the events that led to her mother committing suicide while she was pregnant.

THE GOOD - This is a quasi-fantasy built around a fictional steam punk era, so the costumes are pretty impressive. There is a dazzling performance by William Dafoe that completely wasn’t expected.

THE BAD - The camera work, cinematography and use of lenses were atrocious. Where the director was obviously trying to bring a mind altering epic film; in the genre of “Edward Scissorhands” quality, this film failed to deliver a solid storyline and keep the pacing in line with the film’s message. Filled with dark humor, color variances from black and white, to sepia to pastels, there was nothing in this film that seemed real or gave the clarification of ingenuity for what the plots story had to share.

POAT MORTEM - This movie is a pedophile/groomers dream. As poorly as the movie poster was designed, this was a horrible film. I’m surprised this film won an Oscar or two over an obvious plotline concerning pedophilia through the altering "what if" scenario that asks, "What if Emma Stone had the mind of child, would you still do her?" There was clear indication for the justification of pedophilia within the film’s storyline. Emma Stone is fully naked throughout this film, which completely eradicates any chance of her being remembered as a classy sex symbol. You should watch this when there’s nothing else to see on a hot Sunday afternoon. 

⭐️⭐️💫 [2.5 of 5 Stars]