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Adapted from Alasdair Grace Victorian era satire of the same name. Poor things follows young Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), who is brought back to life by the scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, a renowned surgeon who is equal parts kind and formidable. His medical students, except Max McCandless (Ramy Youssef), Baxter’s assistant – let’s call him Monster. Bella calls him God. Wanting to see more of the world, she runs away with lawyer Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo)and travels across continents. Free from the prejudices of her time, Bella demands equality and liberation.
Why is it good?
What is he doing Poor things such a knee-slapper, despite the script and visuals, is at first glance an unusual performance from Stone as overgrown child, and then like a woman without a filter. Apart from Emma, the cast includes other big names such as Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Margaret Qualley, Katherine Hunter, Susie Bemba And Wayne Brett.
Besides poor things
Following in the footsteps of the book, the film has many aspects of science fiction, a genre that Lanthimos has flirted with in his other works. Lobster. The book takes place in the Victorian era (19th century). Gray’s book won several literary awards, including the Costa Book Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
Lanthimos’s work was usually shown harsh vision of the worldlike Lobster itself, designed to remember how cruel people can be (as if we needed reminding). But his 2017 film Favoriteless sadistic, aggressive, more cheerful and obscene, suggested a possible change of direction.
AND Poor things it’s something else again: extravagant and optimistic, it suggests in its malicious and cheerful way that people can change for the betterand that a world of kindness would be achievable if everyone tried their best to be the best version of themselves.
SAG- Consequences of impact
Due to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, the cast skipped Venice this year and is not promoting the film at this time. The strike is also why the original theatrical release scheduled for September has now been cancelled. postponed until December. The hope is that by then the strike will be over and Stone will be able to promote some of his best and boldest work to date.
Production
This film comes to us from an elite group of talent including filmmakers. Robbie Ryan and production designers James Price And Shauna Heathto an ingratiatingly strange musical score Jerskin Fendricks. Everything about it—every frame, every image, every joke, every performance—is filled with excitement.
The film will be released December 8 in the US, January 12 in the UK and Ireland and January 18 in Australia. Unfortunately, there are still no confirmed release date in Brazil. In the meantime, we can only wait with excitement.
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The article above has been edited bth Beatrice Gatz.
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