#but actually it is absolutely a born sexy yesterday story - tragic

[skullhaver]

i did not like poor things, but unlike plenty of other movies that i dislike, i am still thinking about this one nearly a month later. it has lit a low-burning fire in me that only a critical youtube video essay of at least 30 minutes can extinguish

#i am not going to write the essay myself because unfortunately that would mean i'd have to watch the movie again at least once #i didn't HATE it and there were a few things i even enjoyed about it #but it just felt really pernicious in a way i did not feel about The Favourite #which was also about women's agency in a sexist world (and to a way lesser extent - women's sexualities) #and tbh just reading that reviewer use 'born sexy yesterday' to describe Poor Things really crystalized it for me #because there are elements of disability and horror at play i wasn't able to see it that clearly at first #but actually it is absolutely a born sexy yesterday story - tragic #and the 'faceless suffering brown people teach a white woman that life is painful' was really horrific tbh