Poor Things
Laugh, ecstasy, emotion, our senses, the way we feel, we touch, we compose art. The Art of being born without the boundaries we impose ourselves. Having no ethic yet learning about its restrictions. The freedom of humankind and its innate happiness apart from its utter downfall like in greek mythology Orpheus.
One would argue that Poor Things is simple, yet that's what the director intended too. A complex film that can yet be enjoyed in its simplest of forms.
How come a human mind be colourful, with its adventures of touch and senses yet then come down and explore the rotten side that torments us at its beginnings.
Yorgos pictured a perfect soul of how humanity is composed with a beautiful dystopian universe hard not falling for. Emma Stone breaks the limits of acting with a gradual maturity in a young mind in the body of a woman. The crudeness of having to be born into a body that wasn't yours for take but that is indeed a second chance at a life you never tasted.
Something about this film is so enchanting, so fascinating, I was watching the film thinking "I could watch this again". It can strike as disturbing the amount of sex scenes, but the pure blunt way they show how an incredible Emma Stone reflects innocence, passion and the soul itself of humanity and its exploration craving is needed. Everything ends in those little significacies and meanings behind what this film spats on.
Capitalism, Socialism, cruelty, it really is everything that binds us here. On the watch of wide angles, tons of optical zoom ons/off and the work of art in the perspectives and colouring.
How we went from the prison of humanity in black and white, the youth, the inner places of a house we are bound to, to the colourful life of adventure, with its good and down sides. The circular looking of a mother who never was mother and a child who never got to appreciate a proper childhood, and for the same reason one unique way of growing and developing a perspective that us humans cannot get into.
As we are grounded by ethics and morality.
Poor Things shows us an already existent book into an excellent screenplay. One which makes actors shine and yet another Willem Dafoe film Im rating with 5 stars. It has really struck as the best film of 2023 by far but may be too much of an authoral film for The Academy to give a Best Film prize.