Where better to kick off our in-depth review of dark movies than the movie 'Poor things' starring Hollywood heavy weights like Emma Stone as Bella Baxter, Mark Ruffalo as Duncan, and Willem Dafoe as Godwin Baxter. The movie is directed by the renowned Yorgos Lanthimos who is famous for taking a satirical approach to love, relationships, and sexual dilemmas.
The movies vivid sex scenes are quite shocking to the senses, as Bella Baxter is passed from one dick to another in a maniacal spree of pleasure and fantasy. Sex is appropriately named 'furious jumping' by Bella. This is film noir, unveiling societal ills in a shockingly vivid story.
Film noir definitely does hit the dark spots in our humanity.
The movie starts off with Emma Stone portraying a half-sane woman (Bella Baxter) who is apparently reborn in the labs of scientist Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) after committing suicide by jumping off a cliff.
In the lab she learns to walk and talk and commits weird scenes like peeing on herself. Godwin tries to teach her the ways of the world and finds her a willing spouse in the form of a lab assistance.
However, Bella is whisked away by Duncan (Mark Ruffalo) into a world of sex and pleasure, where she ultimately ends up as a prostitute in a brothel.
To the uninitiated the movie feels just like any other erotic themed movie with fascinating sex scenes and portrayals of boobs and ass. However, the movie is far from just sex scenes and gore.
It is a satirical exposition of societal wrongs including cheated lovers, and enslaved women. Here are some themes in the movie you didn't realize where symbolic of society.
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Bella peeing on herself: Euwww, when Bella Baxter pees on herself, it symbolizes the concept of turning women into dogs, toilets, and sex slaves in a coordinated system of entrapment which has eaten deep into our society.
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The matchmade lover: A lover interested in marriage is sought by her father, but she elopes with another man into a world of immorality and sexual pleasure.
The presentation of a lover by her father can be viewed from two angles. One angle is the concept of forced marriages which is common in the middle-east, and certain religious practices where women are forced into the hands of men they do not love. Another angle is the attempt to provide a loving spouse to a woman in her prime, but the systems of entrapment lures her away in pretense of a pleasurable adventurous journey in sexual freedom.
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The Suffering: While Bella Baxter is having sexual escapades in a magnificent hotel, the movie shows a group of suffering people working hard in what appears to be a trench outside the hotel's walls.
This portrays the reality of the Angelic who suffer under the demonic tenets of the systems of entrapment while their lovers who should provide upliftment, are entrapped by the demonic in sexual slavery. It portrays love falling to the wrong hands and the subsequent sufferings of the masses in modern societies.
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Going Broke: Bella Baxter is duped of Duncan's money by con-artists and goes broke which makes Duncan lose his mind and Bella is recruited into prostitution to fend for herself.
This portrays the demonic tenet of not doing anything good for the Angelic, in other words, the angelic cannot benefit from a system run by a demonic code. The system is based on the enslavement of Angelic women and men. So after their sexual rampage in the hotels and high places they go broke and fall to the level of common brothels.
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Punishment at the Brothel: In the brothel, Bella's enslavement is symbolized firstly by a forced sex from behind by a man who appears to be the boss of the brothel. He doesn't pay but he's acknowledged as someone who has a right to do what ever he wants. Bella's enslavement is further portrayed by the manager of the brothel who bites her ear and hits her playfully, but this symbolizes the brutality that women enslaved in brothels and sex trafficking rings go through in our world.
Bella is passed from one strange customer to another including the crippled, and men she detests being with. This acknowledges the demonic system's tenets that even crippled members of the system get more girls than the ignorant Angelic men who aren't initiated. Note however, that the Angelic cannot benefit from the system, and mostly are given sequences of death sentences when they get initiated.
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The ignorant lover: Bella returns to her father's house after all her frolicking in the wild, hotels, and brothels and yet finds her matchmade lover waiting for her to return. He welcomes her with open hands and willing accepts to get married, rather ignorant of all her adventures. Not all men are in acceptance of the bonded enslavement of women. The compulsory destruction of love by sexual service, whether directly or indirectly.
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Other symbolism: There's also something symbolic about the way Bella turns her former husband who made her commit suicide into an animal.
There's also something symbolic about how the con artist easily made away with Duncan's hard earned money.
Although, the movie is a hard nut to swallow if you love Emma Stone, but it's quite eye opening.
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