Poor Things
I read the book this month and it instantly became one of my favourites. It is such an amazing and many faceted piece of literature that it is hard not to see this film now as a slight failure. There is a lack of ambition in how <PERSON> drops the setting, the framing structure and some level of mystery. It feels like the <PERSON> of 10 years ago might have tried and failed, but perhaps the sense of <PERSON> now is not to try at all. He instead hones in on specific elements of the novel, playing them to perfection. 647
It'd just hard for me not to spend a little time imagining what could have been.
What’s left is a masterpiece in its own right. As so much is excised to focus on the mental journey of <PERSON>. The cinematography, costumes, score, production design. All emphasising what it is like to see the world through the eyes of a child, to be free of worldly pressure, but in <PERSON>’s unique case not to be treated as a child or to know the feeling of being under authority. Perhaps it would be better for the world if we were all afforded such a luxury.
<PERSON> is sensational, but as is the full cast. <PERSON> really just cannot miss an opportunity to do a perfect line delivery. 529