Re: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
11I made it as far into The Lobster as John C. Reilly being forced to put his hand into a toaster for jerking off and noped the fuck outta there.
This is a thing that is kind of driving me bonkers, I do not think that Poor Things is particularly feminist except in the most superficial ways. Certainly the villain (introduced quite late!) is a misogynist and of explicitly misogynistic schemes, and there is a heroic character who is explicitly a feminist socialist sex worker, but the plot arc involves a literally childlike woman engaging in a series of sexual escapades before resolving into a marriage with a man who began the whole film as a arranged and controlling guardian figure. Maybe that would be enough in the 70s but I feel like if you're going to say something is a feminist movie in 2023 you need to have something more to say than that.AdamN wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:33 pm I too did not enjoy Poor Things. I even overheard a coworker gushing about it, saying it was like existential and like feminist. Sigh.
So, my housemate read the book and she felt that that was feminist. Themes have never been Lanthimos's strong point (absurdity and uncomfortable cinema are). I'd guess that any claims of this movie being feminist come from the non-media literate mainstream folks he's been drawing since going Hollywood?Ace K wrote: Sat Aug 24, 2024 4:35 amThis is a thing that is kind of driving me bonkers, I do not think that Poor Things is particularly feminist except in the most superficial ways. Certainly the villain (introduced quite late!) is a misogynist and of explicitly misogynistic schemes, and there is a heroic character who is explicitly a feminist socialist sex worker, but the plot arc involves a literally childlike woman engaging in a series of sexual escapades before resolving into a marriage with a man who began the whole film as a arranged and controlling guardian figure. Maybe that would be enough in the 70s but I feel like if you're going to say something is a feminist movie in 2023 you need to have something more to say than that.AdamN wrote: Thu Aug 22, 2024 2:33 pm I too did not enjoy Poor Things. I even overheard a coworker gushing about it, saying it was like existential and like feminist. Sigh.
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