Poor Things, which stars Emma Stone, is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and based on a 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. Many who saw it at the film festival hailed Stone’s performance as a sexual deviant; others were disturbed by its unsettling narrative that borders on pedophilia.

In the movie, a woman named Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) dies and is brought back to life by scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. How, you might ask? Dr. Baxter reanimates Bella’s corpse by transplanting her baby’s brain into her skull. She becomes childlike again, learns to navigate life as she’s reborn… and then gains an unsatiable appetite for sex. Based on the articles of those who have seen it, this is essentially what the plot is – a woman with the brain of an infant becomes a sex addict.

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Warning; Hollywood at it again with Prestige Kiddie Porn.

The new movie “Poor Things”
is a hit at the Venice Film Festival.

Here is the movie plot: a pregnant Emma Stone tries to kill herself and is saved by a modern day Dr Frankenstein. He saves her by transplanting the brain…

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) September 2, 2023

[Sounds awful enough to win an Oscar, TBQH, in the same way as The Shape of Water. Yorgos Lanthimos is the same director behind the awful film The Lobster, which also had a good cast wasted on a dreadful script and worse direction, and the highly disappointing The Favourite, which also starred Emma Stone and did get an Oscar nomination. Lanthimos turns characters into marionettes, devoid of any humanity, to be manipulated in any way possible while being stiff as boards otherwise. The trailer for Poor Things gives every indication that Lanthimos is stuck squarely in his ouevre. Combine that with a repellent set-up like this, and be warned. — Ed]