Poor Things is so absolutely bizarre and Emma Stone was phenomenal in the role. Willem DeFoe was also at his weirdest here. It’s hard to recommend, just with the sheer amount of grotesque scenes, but anyone that I think will take to it, I recommend it.

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, I absolutely agree! Poor things is probably my favorite movie of all time. I agree, that it's hard to reccomend, but it's also probably one of the more normie-compatible movies of yorgos lanthimos, if you compare it to something like "the lobster" or "the killing of a sacret deer. By the way, thre is also a book with the same title, which this movie is based on. It's written from the perspective of McCandles and you learn a lot more about the Godwin Baxter character there (who was much more of a background character in the movie). It's also just phenomanally written, so I am really enjoying it so far.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I recommend that people first watch Swiss Army Man to dip their toe into the comedy they're about to absorb when they put on Poor Things.

My bad synopsis of Poor Things

Edward Scissorshands with STIs and brain ghosts. And lots of "furious jumping."