Poor Things (2023)
8/10
Strangely Quirky Take of Mad Science
11 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
It has been a while since the Science of reanimation has been taken and redone in a different spin. This movie does it with a heavily made up William Dafoe doing things that are just off the wall. The plot is a pregnant woman jumping off a bridge to her death. Dafoe finds the body still warm, removes the baby and then the babies brain and installs it in the dead mothers head on the dead mothers body.

The body and head belong to Emma Stone whose performance in this movie makes it into a guilty pleasure. She gets pleasured and abused throughout the film. The comparison to Tom Hanks playing an child in a mans body in Big does not really compare though the acting does. It is not easy for an adult to bring off playing a minor inside an adult body. Emma Stone beings it off here with kudos. Her performance here makes it a guilty pleasure.

Even though it is nearly 2.5 hours long, what is going to happen to Stone makes this movie hard to stop watching. Every man and a madame take advantage of her. Yet she keeps coming through. She gets scammed on a ship by some cons who take money of her man to give to the poor, yet she comes through it.

Her life takes twists and turns.

Meanwhile, the mad doctor tries to duplicate what he did with anther woman and babies brain. This one just does not seem to work the same way. He develops Cancer and his best creation comes back home in time to see him before he dies.

While this movie is not for the kiddies, it brings a perverted pleasure to see Emma Stone bring this off. She is the show while Dafoes mad doctor plays second fiddle. This is the rare film today which twists science and makes it what it really is, absurd discovery of facts which make little sense. This reminds me of the mentality out there expressed by so many morons that we are going to stop climate change. Saying that is the same thing as saying we are going to stop the wind from blowing. Both concepts waste a lot of passed gas. Processes of nature will happen. To believe otherwise makes someone a mad protester. Unfortunately, the world is full of plenty of those.

Emma Stones great performance rises above everything in this movie.
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