Poor Things

Opinions seem to be very divided on this movie by Yórgos Lánthimos, so here's mine. Not being used to fantastic works of any kind, I dared to watch "Poor Creatures"... And it's a yes! The first images, with their eerie music and intoxicating cinematography, were disconcerting, but I quickly grew to like them.  The more the plot unfolded, the more I found myself plunged into the abyss of this fantastic world with its surprisingly well-defined narrative.  The beauty of the costumes, the acting (bonus points for the spectacular Emma Stone) and above all, the visually stunning sets. It is safe to say that the director managed to make me travel from my cinema seat.  However, don't come expecting just images, as this movie deals with several realistic themes: toxic masculinity, bourgeois class, suicide, addiction and, above all, feminism. Yórgos Lánthimos definitely plays with fire, using black humor as a tool to denounce a misogynistic and hypocritical society of the time that is still with us today. Some scenes are disconcerting, especially the overly repetitive sex scenes: they're probably meant to make the viewer uncomfortable at first, but after a while we understand where the director is taking us.  "When we know the world, the world is ours" is a phrase from this feature-length film that I've taken note of, and which certainly describes its moral well.