There's not enough words in the world to describe how weird this movie is nor are there any words to describe how I felt watching it. I don't know what I felt while watching this, but discomfort's putting it lightly.
I saw Poor Things with my friend, Jacob (his blog's here), about a week after it came out and thank God for him because I would not have made it through that alone. From start to finish, this movie was a roller coaster of emotion that made it genuinely difficult to pull your eyes away from the screen, but at the same time made you want to hate every movie you've ever watched. It's a disturbing perversion of how people grow up and find themselves. And I'm going to be honest, we were either going to see this or Wonka and we chose this because it looked better and was up for a number of Oscar categories. We should've just done Wonka. So, after just crapping on the movie the entire introduction, it really seems like this movie could never redeem itself in any categories. But the parts that are good are magnificent. The most obvious example of this being the actors. Poor Things shines almost entirely through its actors. Willem Dafoe, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo all explore characters that are wildly different than any other character I've any of them play before. Well, Ruffalo's mad for a lot of the movie. I feel like there's a series of movies where his alter ego is triggered by him being mad, but I just can't think of it. Anyway, the acting. Poor Things relies almost entirely on its actors to keep the audience entertained, because the plot would have definitely scared most of the audience out if the acting wasn't good. But genuinely, the acting in this is phenomenal. Each one of the actors absolutely sold their parts and I'm not surprised that Emma Stone got Best Actress for this. But that doesn't mean I like this movie. I can't think of a reason to like this that isn't the acting or the costuming, and that's because of how the movie unfolds. It follows a young woman's coming of age (literally) and how she learns to view the world and empower herself. Reading that sentence, you'd think that this is a pretty good movie, right? But that's the most basic, absolute rock-bottom plot synopsis of this movie. I don't want to spoil anything because the twist is kind of freaky, and if you've read this blog at all you know I love freaky elements in movies, but the rest of this movie is absolutely an exception to that.
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