POOR THINGS Review

1. Masterpiece or discount-rate satire?
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Written by Tony McNamara and Alasdair Gray
INSPIRATION: based on the novel titled ‘Poor things’ from 1992 by Alasdair Grey
- Comedic
- Quirky
- Satirical/ ironic
Unusual/ insane/ bonkers/ ridicuolous

Absurd
2. Scenery
- Fisheye effect
- We can observe vibrant colours and widest possible lenses to make every location as
big and extravagant as it can possibly be.
- The music uses the most quirky and wavy sounds, like a dark and twisted version of a
children’s TV show theme song. It’s rather bouncy, vigorous but still remains
consistent.
3. Godwin Baxter, played by Willem Dafoe, resurrects a dead woman, who was with
child.
He has taken the brain of an unborn child and put it into the woman’s body. Since then he
calls his so called daughter Bella.
“a pregnant suicide victim is brought back to life by a mad scientist, replacing her brain with
the premature brain of her unborn child”
Godwin and Bella have a very loving relationship of father and daughter. It could be
compared to the relationship many people have with God from the religious perspective
A woman baby. The film is captured in the most grand wondorous and curious way, the same
way as child looks at the world.
4. Bella leaves God and starts looking for the right path of life on her own. She
encounters many friends, strangers with differing philosophies and beliefs. One of
them is Duncan, who is played by Mark Ruffalo. He seduces little Bella and let her
discover her body and sexuality. He uses Bella at first, being a guide for her. But later
on in the movie, when Bella grows older, he turns out to be a manipulative psycho.
5. Bella starred by Emma Stone is a girl in a mature woman’s body, who is looking for
herself, her destiny and the life’s path. She needs to learn how to behave in public,
how to react in some specific situations, how to speak properly.
Director: “It’s mostly creating conditions for characters in situations where you reveal
conflicts in human behavior, society around humans and humans themselves.”
The movie shows us how woman would react to the outside world if she hadn’t been
influenced by the common norms/ customs and expectations of the society.
The movie focuses on some aspects of society and the world we live in, how things operate
there and at the same time it finds humor in this story.
6. Bella’s life is a journey thorough different parts of art and philosophy like
enlightment, romanticism, transcendentalism and even 1930s Hollywood. At the very
begging the movie scenes are black and white, which reminds us of the 1930s movies,
the world before colour cinematography.
When Bella’s journey thorough the whole Europe begins, the colour enters the screen and the
scenery resembles workpieces Egan Sheila, Heronimus Bosch or Francais Bacon.
After abandoning her father when it was a proper time for it, she discovered the world. She
got to know some people with not only good intensions towards her. Even though Duncan
wasn’t quite good for her and wanted to use her, most of the time sexually, Bella needed to
meet him and experience with him the cruise on the ship, meeting the old lady and her
company just to be introduced to the philosophy. Stay in Paris showed Bella the whole
aspects of womanhood. She also encounters the loss, pain and cruelty of the outside world
there. All these events were necessary for Bella to understand who she is and what her destiny
is. At the end of the movie Bella is evolved physically, sexually, philosophically, socially and
politically.
In my opinion this movie also shows how children look at their parents with love, gratitude
and they don’t put any pressure. They are just tolerant and open with all their hearts and
minds.
Emma Stone – a standout/ her performance so remarkably unhinged and off-the-wall/

fearless/
Mark Ruffalo – at first a guide for Bella, later on a manipulative psycho
William Defo – mad scientist
Violent/

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1. Masterpiece or discount-rate satire?

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos

Unusual/ insane/ bonkers/ ridicuolous

Emma Stone – a standout/ her performance so remarkably unhinged and off-the-wall/

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