Poor Things

I decided to do a second watch of this movie after I really liked it the first time I watched it, even though people were saying it was not good and I felt left out for loving it. First and foremost, the aesthetics in this movie are genius, every single one of the settings were superb and the editing, makeup, costumes, and cinematography left me breathless, Now I will proceed to do an extended analysis of the film that no one asked me to do, but I could not watch it without thinking about it the whole time. Bella has become probably one of my favorite characters of all time (I think it's just the fact that I'm a huge fan of the fish out of the water films and discovering the world) I could not help but notice how when she escapes God's house she is wearing a white dress representing the innocence that she had when she got away and at the end when she sees God's final moments she is wearing a black dress representing how she is no longer an innocent child and she is all grown up now (mentally). The whole movie is her journey, her path, a romcom of her falling in love with life, and of course discovering its ugly parts too, Here is my analysis of how each character represents a lesson in Bella's life. - Godwin "God" Baxter is her paternal figure was the man that first used her, using her body as an experiment for the baby's brain transplanting but as one is born too, it is Bella's first love and when he dies it signifies that Bella is no longer a child and also the start of Bella's independence and eventual queen status in the mad family - Max is Bella's true love, is the first and only man that doesn't see her as an object and actually aprecciates her in some kind of way, though Bella actually couldn't care less, because she thinks love is the love that her "father" gave her, by being used as an object or as a lab rat. - Duncan is a very polemic character, often seen by other people as abusing and taking over Bella (knowing that she's a 5 year old in reality) but I think that is the lesson that she learns with him, Duncan never really loved her, he just saw him as his personal sex toy, never caring about her feelings, trying to surpress her when she actually wanted to express and opinion on something and limiting her to someone with no opinion, nor control over her body (later on, Max teaches her that her body is actually her choice) - Harry and Martha represent Bella's awakening, Martha being the first woman in power that she meets ever and realizes that woman can also have an opinion and their sex appeal do not equals her worth and leads Bella to know that she can be her power and it's just some man's shadow. Harry showing Bella for the first time poverty, which awakens Bella's sense of compassion, empathy and her impotence when she realizes she simply cannot help the poor crashing against a wall metaphorically by breaking down when she comes face to face with the ugly part of the idealized world that she had in mind. - Toinette and the girls from the brothel is Bella's first encounter with femininity, but then realizes and wanting to fight against the fact that even in a place full of women, still the men are the ones in power of their bodies and the ones who achieve their fantasies by putting this women in uncomfortable situations but still, they got to make money somehow, and realizes she simply cannot do anything about it. - Felicity makes Bella learn a lesson, that people are replaceable when she didn't work to the d.r. he replaced her with someone younger because probably Bella didn't even meant that much to God, as God meant to Bella - Alfie is Bella's last straw, her reconnection with her past life and seeing how bad it was and realizing that probably seeing the world through a child's innocent perspective was more beautiful than staying and live under a man's shadow, and it's also her act after learning her lesson that she can be in a power position too. Eventually leading up to her taking her revenge by transforming him into a goat in the body of a human finally sitting on her throne and talking about her education and Max supporting her on it, as the only man who was truly rooting for her to become a women and believing that she could actually achieve her goal, changing the world that hurt her. Beautiful, underrated movie and I know there's probably some facts I left out but that was the analysis I thought while watching it that I can remember lol