*Reads the spoiler plot on Wiki* Huh. So everything I've been doing the last 2 years of structuring the plot, and getting everything to loop together just right...none of that matters...you can just vomit onto the page in a fugue state, and the critics will cum all over you.
Of course. Have you not seen Pulp Fiction? Throw in a joke about someone putting a watch up their ass for decades, and toss in some S&M bullshit all the normies find edgy, and a conversation about cheeseburders in france and you too can fool everyone with your shit story about briefcase delivery men. Oh yeah, and don't forget the naked titties.
Apparently it's based on a novel? But from what I experienced it's less about the plot and more about the art design and the acting. It's also something of a throwback to those smutty foreign art films that were far more popular before real porn was easily accessible.
Just saw this on Disney+. Jesus. The movie is about nothing but Emma Stone masturbating and fucking anything that moves. Also, Mark Ruffalo doing really, really bad accents again (see: All The Light We Cannot See). I'm not complaining about hardcore Emma Stone, but how the hell did this thing get 11 Academy Award nominations?
What I already said above: Critics and the Academy love smut and nudity so long as it can be labelled artistic. Shakespeare In Love won seven Oscars and beat Saving Private Ryan for best picture after Gwyneth Paltrow got her tits out for it. Black Swan got five nominations and Natalie Portman won an Oscar for losing a bunch of weight and simulating oral sex with Mila Kunis.
And that's a bad thing? For me it's on Hulu, but stopping what I was doing to watch it now. For the... ummm story? Not the naughty bits.
Overall Poor Things was pretty good. Sure from the joking about Emma Stone showing off her bits, the movie was surprisingly good. I enjoyed William Defoe's character more than Stone's. The visual design was great, really liked how the visual design progressed the more Bella married matured. Going to guess that the medical inaccuracies aren't really a problem for most people. But seriously how are you going to get a newborn's brain into an adult skull without it rattling around like a maraca? "Hairy business"
