(ESP-ENG) Poor Things - Movie Review!
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As you know we are on the eve of the Oscars awards so it is almost mandatory to catch up with the films that are giving more to talk about and look at Poor Things is doing it. Honestly, what I have read about this film is very varied, that is to say, a percentage was fascinated by it but others not so much and after having seen it, it must be said that it is not a film for everyone, it is an uncomfortable, irreverent, obscene film but in the end it brings an important message, one that seems that people find it hard to see and assimilate; that's where I think the lack of understanding of the film comes from.
Poor Things is an ode to freedom and Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) proves it. Bella is a girl who lives in the house of a renowned and particular scientist named Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). She is the product of something, of an idea of Godwin and it is thanks to him that she gradually begins to grow, to have some awareness and certain knowledge of life but at the end of the day she feels incomplete, her curiosity to know and learn about the world leads her to make a decision that will mark her for the rest of her life. I say this because it is not that she lived in captivity but it is true that she did not have the freedom to do and go where she wanted.
Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a prestigious lawyer, arrives to her life in a surprising way, but he also has his own peculiar details that make him quite peculiar. The thing is that Bella decides to embark on a trip around the world with this lawyer with the intention of expanding her knowledge and satisfy her curiosity about everything she has yet to know. In the end and unintentionally it will be an introspective journey because without realizing it, she will begin to experience things that she had never felt in her life, such as freedom and doing what she wants without being tied to anything or anyone.
As I said, this is a film that waves the flag of freedom but not from the feminist side, I don't want to see it that way, but from an angle of people and individuals as we are in the end. Bella is a person who almost all her life lived renegade of the things that make life enjoyable and meaningful so that absence of those feelings and sensations made that part of personality were off, so to speak. It is in this journey where she leaves behind some prejudices that were very notorious for the time and dedicates herself to live without looking to the sides, with all the freedom in the world but also with an astonishing naivety.
Living life without filters is complicated because we fall into the judgment of people, in the famous "what people will say" and that is something that Bella gradually learns to live with. It is a story that I found spectacular because it delves into that overcoming and evolution as individuals that many of us should have, Bella before the world was nobody and ended up being a capable, confident person with very strong convictions and all this thanks to life experiences. The world is a dark place, full of evil and many evils, something that Bella did not know; so in the face of such a shock she responds with an attitude that calls for equality and a little justice. It is true that this is a bit romantic and even cliché, but in the end it is what the film leaves us with.
The cinematography is spectacular, the costumes, the way it was filmed, the photography, the colors, the soundtrack, the setting; everything is made to fit very well in what it really is: an extremely eccentric story. It must be said that the comedy is very present with an anthological Mark Ruffalo, one of the best characters I've seen this actor play. There is nudity, there are sexual scenes and there are things that are complicated to watch, things that some will find not very digestible. Personally I found it very attractive, it is a cinema that is less and less seen and that is something to be applauded to Yorgos Lanthimos, its director, and of course to Emma Stone.
What Emma Stone did in this film is from another planet. It is a complicated character and very difficult to interpret without mentioning all the nudity and sexual scenes that she has that I already told you there are a few. Each and every one of them have a reason to be and are for the construction of the character, many people find it hard to understand this but that is the reality. They were a means to an end. Do I see her winning an Oscar? - Yes, perfectly, be careful if it is not the best role she has done in her career. Mention for Defoe who also did a great job being a kind of "modern" Frankenstein.
A film that I liked a lot, very polarized that if, but in the end being this an art is understandable that there are opinions of all kinds. I give it an 8/10. I recommend everyone to see it because I feel it is very worthwhile, the story of overcoming and evolution is very top despite the endless eccentricities that you will see. A little long, almost 2 hours 20 minutes, that was the negative but still quite enjoyable. I leave the trailer here.
¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
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