This is certainly not a film for everyone's tastes as far as the story goes. But, in watching this, all I could think of was another filmmaker's work, that of David Lynch in his earlier independent days of films like "Eraserhead." I was intrigued by such work when I was younger, but my parents- wow! I never could warm them up to Lynch's early work. It was different and took more of an arty approach, stretching the bar than a typical cinematic one that would have ignored such a thing. I feel the same way about 'Poor Things' in this generation.
My words to describe this film? 'Out there,' 'creatively expressive,' and 'cinematography nuanced.' The basic story was my cup of tea; the realization of it on screen in many parts, was NOT.
Just as with the Barbie film, the women's lib thing was overbearing and not subtle in its conveyance at all, and that didn't keep my attention as this path grew and went 'over the deep end' in message for me. Meaning, I did not think it was sooo much needed.
Extracting that over-messaging from the film could've left me with the Lynch-esque Frankenstein-ish horror Dr. Baxter's grotesque played just as 'on the edge with vile experimentations' by Willem Dafoe.
We also had the greedy and wickedly 'scheming cad' Duncan, played 'to the crazy hilt' by Mark Ruffalo. It reminded me of one of those animated Disney character Princes of late, that was 100 percent all for himself instead of saving the damsel in distress.
Emma Stone appears here as an interesting creation of Dr. Baxter's. To me, watching her believably go from death to a stumbling abomination creation through the stages of childhood to adulthood, with all the stages that come with it, was acted well in this film by Emma.
But...did it need to show all that overt sexuality? Even though I understood it was a period of adolescence and rebellion stages for this creation, I feel it didn't have to go THAT far. And so, I feel this creature's sexuality, even when you connect her reason for death to becoming this creature now, could've cut some of it out.
I am not saying that even if that were done to this film, there wouldn't be viewers who would STILL consider this their cup of tea, and I say that is all good. No one likes everything, but those who like obscure, heavily artistically designed material may find it to be like this, even questioning its intentions and flaws.
My words to describe this film? 'Out there,' 'creatively expressive,' and 'cinematography nuanced.' The basic story was my cup of tea; the realization of it on screen in many parts, was NOT.
Just as with the Barbie film, the women's lib thing was overbearing and not subtle in its conveyance at all, and that didn't keep my attention as this path grew and went 'over the deep end' in message for me. Meaning, I did not think it was sooo much needed.
Extracting that over-messaging from the film could've left me with the Lynch-esque Frankenstein-ish horror Dr. Baxter's grotesque played just as 'on the edge with vile experimentations' by Willem Dafoe.
We also had the greedy and wickedly 'scheming cad' Duncan, played 'to the crazy hilt' by Mark Ruffalo. It reminded me of one of those animated Disney character Princes of late, that was 100 percent all for himself instead of saving the damsel in distress.
Emma Stone appears here as an interesting creation of Dr. Baxter's. To me, watching her believably go from death to a stumbling abomination creation through the stages of childhood to adulthood, with all the stages that come with it, was acted well in this film by Emma.
But...did it need to show all that overt sexuality? Even though I understood it was a period of adolescence and rebellion stages for this creation, I feel it didn't have to go THAT far. And so, I feel this creature's sexuality, even when you connect her reason for death to becoming this creature now, could've cut some of it out.
I am not saying that even if that were done to this film, there wouldn't be viewers who would STILL consider this their cup of tea, and I say that is all good. No one likes everything, but those who like obscure, heavily artistically designed material may find it to be like this, even questioning its intentions and flaws.