"Poor Thing" will be released worldwide from 2023 and has been widely praised by all walks of life. The film tells the story of Godwin, an eccentric surgeon, who takes out the baby brain of Victoria, a pregnant woman who committed suicide by falling into the river, and transplants it to replace Victoria's brain, giving her a second life named Bella. The story revolves around Bella's path of growth and awakening.
Rather than talking about "Poor Things" in terms of feminism, I think it's more of a film about the inner awakening of human beings. Because the audience never knows the true gender of the baby in Victoria's womb, we only know that she started a new life with a female body, and opened up an exploration of the world with sex.
Bella's visual age is in her early 20s and 30s, but her limbs resemble winding puppets, swinging and walking incoherently. She speaks and behaves like a newborn child, snuggling up to Godwin in the face of strangers, crying to express her anger and dissatisfaction. When I first watched the movie, I thought it was a stunted **. It wasn't until Doctor Assistant Meis uncovered Godwin's research that he transformed the real person and ensured that his experiment (Bella) grew intact under his watch.
Like Rapunzel in a fairy tale, Bella can only peek out of the tower through tiny windows, which certainly doesn't satisfy her curiosity about the world. Bella smashed dishes and screamed and complained of God's (Godwin's) bondage. However, Godwin, who always emphasizes scientific rationality, on the one hand, symbolizes the control of men over women under the patriarchal society, and on the other hand, he is full of love and care for Bella. The contradictions and conflicts in the film stir up secular theories in the viewer's head.
Deception and lies aside, I miss you so much – "Poor Thing".But rather than using the patriarchal society to summarize Godwin, I think his control comes from multiple facets. Eventually, Rapunzel breaks free from the shackles of a sensual scientist and follows the Merry Lawyer through the world, into the mortal world, and embarks on a journey to the real world.
When it comes to why Bella is more interested in the world, I think it's accompanied by sexual enlightenment. Regardless of Bella's actual age at the time, because she inadvertently experienced sexual pleasure, she began to imagine **.
She picked up the peaches (apples) and cucumbers on the table and shared her novel discoveries with Meiss, just like Bella's character setting, her young mind caused her to talk about anything without hesitation, always pointing out the unreasonable disguises in society, spitting out unpalatable food, and not shying away from difficult people.
Sex in the film is like the forbidden fruit of Adam and Eve, but in Bella's innate unrestrained and free-spirited individuality, sexuality becomes an indispensable and important element. Sexual provocation prompts him to travel with his lawyer, Duncan, and experience countless pleasures. But after knowing that Duncan also has limits, he turns around and looks for more sex. At the same time, she also shared with Duncan the ** process of her and others, and even *** felt crazy.
I, like all of us, was a feast of the unpredictable – Poor ThingsIn the movie, the most memorable part of the movie is the cruise ship. The boat makes Bella sail to a more boundless distance, to the other side of the experience of life. While Duncan was addicted to alcohol and gambling, Bella began to meet new friends, an old woman and her entourage, which became Bella's contact with philosophy and led her to see the cruel face of the world.
There is a glorious life of the rich in this world, but also a purgatory of poverty, hunger, and robbery. The rich live like they live in the center of a castle, they can only look down on the poor people like ants and rags from a high place, but the staircase to the poor world is only broken walls, completely blocking the two ends of the world. The attendants told Bella that if they were poor today, they would also rob and plunder to survive. This reminds meThe classic line in "Parasitic High School" - rich so kind
Bella wailed at the sight before her, grieving that she could not change the way of the world, and that she had only lived under Godwin's umbrella in the past, not knowing that the class and life of the world were like a cube, with another side that he had never seen. Bella's innocent attitude tried to give the money won by Duncan's gambling to the ship's sailors as a gift to the poor, but she did not know that it had already been stolen. And I thinkGrief and compassion are important emotional elements that advance Bella's more human natureand at the same time the climax of the film.
After disembarking, Bella disdained Duncan's inability to do anything, and at first stepped into a brothel for financial resources**, but met an old bustard who was enough to change her life.
We have to experience everything. Not just good things, but also humiliation, fear, and sadness. This makes us whole, Bella, and makes us people with substance. And not frivolous, untouched children. 」Rather than for money, Bella doesn't care what the world thinks of the prostitute profession, and when Duncan looks down on her, she thinks she only uses her body as a tool of production. This job is also paid for hard work, and is no different from any other profession. She even used to be rough with different men during this time, and even being treated roughly by strange men, which is also the nourishment for her to understand the world. And her fiancé, Mais, also has an avant-garde open-mindedness, told BellaIt's your body, and you have the right to use it freelyDuncan's ostensibly angry with Bella as a prostitute has actually become a clingy horror lover, a metaphor for his subsequent descent into a man who borders on madness, misery, ridiculousness, and scum.
As Bella prepares to end her life of traveling the world, the story takes the viewer in a sharp turn. Bella's predecessor Victoria's husband, the General, turned out to intercept Bella's and Mais's wedding. Echoing Bella's remarks that the men she meets around her want to control her.
When Bella officially walks into Victoria's past, the room is filled with suffocating and oppressive particles, and the corridors of the manor are as dead silent as leading to the execution ground. General Blaxington demanded that Bella obey with a gun, but Bella did not flinch even though she was terrified. She then used Godwin's notes to transplant sheep brains to Brightington, passing on Godwin's surgical skills.
The scene switches to a peaceful and calm afternoon, with a group of people leisurely enjoying afternoon tea accompanied by the barking of sheep. The humorous narrative technique of this paragraph, with a strong sense of "taming", presents that the generals in the past always used their majesty and power to make others obedient, cold-blooded and inhumane, compared to the control of Bella's overturning power after becoming a sheep man, which is very interesting and conflicting.
I've gone through an adventure and found nothing but sugar and violence – Poor ThingsThe whole movie is full of weirdness, absurdity, and fantasy, and the characters are dressed retro, but they seem to be living in a time and space that never existed, making people feel like they are in a different world. It is this kind of grotesque and conflict that shapes the tone of the film.
In the end, Bella is like a strong man after traveling around the world, breaking through the road of pursuing the essence of human beings, tasting delicious food, appreciating beautiful scenery, encountering the ignorance and greed of human nature, those mixed emotions in the world and the books she read converged into the insights of this journey, making her transform from a baby into a mature rational and emotional individual. This second life, even if the process is not as good as she imagined, but after seeing the suffering in the world, she understands the worldIt hurts, but - it's good to be alive.
Snap back on the naming of the movie, who exactly is the poor thing ?
If you've watched "Barbie" and hate that it didn't make it to the Oscars, then you should watch "Poor Thing," which was shortlisted for 11 awards. Regardless of whether the two films are really feminist works, on the proposition of human awakening, "Barbie" has evolved into an educational or propaganda slogan because it is close to the mass market and conveys ideas with lines and mouths, while "Poor Things" uses stories to drive the plot and lead the audience to see the growth curve of the protagonist.
In particular, Emma Stone's performance interprets her character, body, expression, and thoughts from the perspective of a baby to ** in a clear way. 2.In the 5-hour movie, we are like following Bella to play the world, in the seemingly curious picture, every corner is full of stories, and every line is worthy of detailed analysis and understanding. Such a hearty movie is worth savoring for everyone.