Poor Creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos: Film Review

This is one film that can make a big splash at the upcoming Oscars with its 11 nominations. Starting with the race for the Best Actress statue which we will see in the hands of Emma Stone. Five years later favoriteGreek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos finds an actress for a strong OFNI capable of tickling the juggernaut’s feet. Oppenheimer During the great mass of cinema. Adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray, Poor creatures A strange mix of retrofuturistic fantasy, black comedy and gothic drama (to make it short), it aims to create a myth about the world by retracing the journey of a suicidal woman to escape a violent husband. Revived by a scientist who replaced her brain with the brain of her unborn child, Bella will (re)discover the world.

What a story! What a movie creator! What an actress! And the combination of these three exclamations leads to a fourth: What a film! Or rather, what a great movie! Brain, sex, naivety, socialism, dominant patriarchy, world travel, love, pain, liberated feminism, exploitation, violence, vagina, goat and experience reports, Yorgos Lanthimos, Yorgos Lanthimos creates a film. Nourished by reflection on the current state of the world. From feminist rebellion to rebel capitalism through the disarming view that a virgin mind can have on a flowing humanity, Poor creatures There is a masterclass whose intelligence we can never appreciate too much.

Like a little bit Edward Scissorhands, Poor creatures The world is an odyssey of anachronistic discovery. Carrying the innocence dear to her newborn brain in an adult body, Bella has no spirit. It is a blank page that has not yet been conditioned by norms, by ideas, by experience. He would thus observe the world as it turns, that is to say against the grain of a priori logic. Violence, poverty, a patriarchy that fears, the rebellion of subjugated women, lost innocence, greed, norms that stifle freedom, such a picture passes before her eyes that sinks into incomprehensibility. From the gap between her candid freshness and the reality of the world she perceives without codes, moments of great humor will arise. Even moments of great cruelty. But above all, Lanthimos reflects on the shackles that limit us and on the nonsense that dictates the course of the world.