It's problematic in the same way the plot of Cannibal Holocaust or Stephen King's IT is problematic. There isn't an actual child's brain in Emma Stone.
It is not the child brain that is problematic but rather the issue of the capacity of stone’s character to consent to what is happening to her. But as I say I’ve not seen it and base all this on a guardian article I read.
It's about her journey of discovery into equality and becoming liberated from the expectations of women at the time. It isn't about dirty old men taking advantage of a child.
It's the one where a woman has a baby's brain put into her skull and then sort of becomes a nympho when she's mentally about 5. ---- This is actually the plot. She liberates herself from her creator by fooking a random who she agrees totraipse around Europe with. She liberates herself further by setting up as a hooker.
It's all very liberating. I feel free just watching all that coochie and tit on display which was definitely not titillating for the straight male audience. Emma as the director was very liberated.
Visually it's excellent, acting is great. The message isn't without merit, but at the core it's a heady brew of paedo excusory and men who love the idea of a free spirit woman, but actually want to tame her.
You lost your shit about a week ago because I thought it was a poor decision to book someone to sing Murder on the Dancefloor in a venue where 90 people were murdered. Maybe you're just an edge lord. That's cool. Someone has to be.
I don’t really vibe with American ideas of relationships or purported feminism or liberation. They are often fake with one dimensional characters. I haven’t seen the film and am not yet persuaded.
Oh was that you? I think self-evidently it was you losing your shit about that. As you are about this film.
I don't think it is being an edge lord to imagine that if a theater stays open after something like that, then it is going to show a LOT of things which are murder adjacent, as all theaters do. Suggesting it should do otherwise is like suggesting law firms shouldn't work for clients who aren't nice.
The pattern is nothing to do with me, it's just that you happen to have said at least two twittish things.
Right. Having watched it last night I now have the correct answer.
So all the paedo stuff is a cul de sac. You can ignore that. Just muddled thinking.
It’s a bit French though. The satire works, a sort of Candide ingenue traipsing their way through various hardships as lessons are learned, while at the same time spoofing the other side. The signposts are loud and clear however. Subtle it isn’t. Ruffalo as a cad misses the mark tho. He’s just not credibly that much of a bounder.
Visually great. Ms Stone was very brave too in terms of the nudity. That all worked without being titillating or voyueristic, which is not always easy to do.
I have now seen Poor Things. Visually it's amazing and inventive. Acting all excellent, especially Stone (obvs) and Mark Ruffalo - I love him anyway and thought he was great as the cad and bounder. I liked the ending - liberation for BB and comeuppance for the appalling husband.
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Emma Stone’s “look” in this film is deterring me from watching it.
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It’s very funny. I thought the ending let it down slightly.
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this is the one about Scottish colonialism ?
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It's the one where a woman has a baby's brain put into her skull and then sort of becomes a nympho when she's mentally about 5.
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I dont know if it is more wtaf if that really is the plot or if it is just something that cane from your warped little mind
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No, that is the plot. I have not seen it and tbh not really my thing so probably won’t, but yeah it seems problematic
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It's problematic in the same way the plot of Cannibal Holocaust or Stephen King's IT is problematic. There isn't an actual child's brain in Emma Stone.
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It is not the child brain that is problematic but rather the issue of the capacity of stone’s character to consent to what is happening to her. But as I say I’ve not seen it and base all this on a guardian article I read.
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It's about her journey of discovery into equality and becoming liberated from the expectations of women at the time. It isn't about dirty old men taking advantage of a child.
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Mr Royalty, please can you explain why all these movies are on your hard drive?
They aren't REAL! They are just ACTING!
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It sounds like utter w**k.
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OMG OMG
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How can you watch this filth?
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2.5 hours of film off little substance, plot and merit.
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It's the one where a woman has a baby's brain put into her skull and then sort of becomes a nympho when she's mentally about 5.
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This is actually the plot. She liberates herself from her creator by fooking a random who she agrees totraipse around Europe with. She liberates herself further by setting up as a hooker.
It's all very liberating. I feel free just watching all that coochie and tit on display which was definitely not titillating for the straight male audience. Emma as the director was very liberated.
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Getting an Oscar just means the people who give Oscars liked it. The English patient win about ten and it was rubbish
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Emma Stone is 35yrs old. I am truly sorry for you that seeing her ladyparts has caused you to feel like a kiddy fiddler.
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Heh @ the centrist dads split
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What do you think risky?
As a man who kept an imaginary child in a cage in his basement you are well placed to contribute.
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Thanks for telling me how I feel. So refreshing.
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You told on yourself, I just held up a mirror.
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You had the reflective side facing you. Im gay ffs. Hth.
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“I just held up a mirror.”
Like a faulty barber, as per
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Good reviews. I might give it a miss.
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Being gay doesn't make your taste in films any better davos old pal.
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sounds shite
WB Emma Stone (the real life one with the 35yo brain)
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35 year old brains are tight.
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I gave my view in the third post of this thread royalty.
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Why did the end let you down riskers?
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It just wasn’t as high tempo as the rest of it and I thought a bit underwhelming.
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As a person who watched the film rather than read a synopsis, did you feel it was "peedie" overall?
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No, not at all. That’d be like saying because prople like you have the intellect of a child, it’s wrong to not keep you in a cage in the basement
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That's a shit take but good try for you.
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It really does sound like a terrible film.
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Visually it's excellent, acting is great. The message isn't without merit, but at the core it's a heady brew of paedo excusory and men who love the idea of a free spirit woman, but actually want to tame her.
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Sounds fvcking horrendous
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I saw a trailer. It was odd. Emma OhsoNormal and polite being weird. Yep whatever not yep have an Oscar.
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I loved it
Fan of the director, adore Emma Stone
Did not rate Mark Ruffalo’s performance
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"but at the core it's a heady brew of paedo excusory"
Grow up. It's nothing of the sort.
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It's a great film if you aren't a pearl clutcher.
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Spurious, u okay sweetie. You seem to follow me around. It's flattering, but I'm probably too old for you.
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Wot are u on abaht. I'm not aware of ever posting to you before.
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You lost your shit about a week ago because I thought it was a poor decision to book someone to sing Murder on the Dancefloor in a venue where 90 people were murdered. Maybe you're just an edge lord. That's cool. Someone has to be.
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I don’t really vibe with American ideas of relationships or purported feminism or liberation. They are often fake with one dimensional characters. I haven’t seen the film and am not yet persuaded.
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Oh was that you? I think self-evidently it was you losing your shit about that. As you are about this film.
I don't think it is being an edge lord to imagine that if a theater stays open after something like that, then it is going to show a LOT of things which are murder adjacent, as all theaters do. Suggesting it should do otherwise is like suggesting law firms shouldn't work for clients who aren't nice.
The pattern is nothing to do with me, it's just that you happen to have said at least two twittish things.
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Jellymonster14 Mar 24 19:43
35 year old brains are tight.
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Anywaaay.
I do love Mark Ruffalo though x.
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Tbf jello was being a right fanny about the bataclan thing.
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Right. Having watched it last night I now have the correct answer.
So all the paedo stuff is a cul de sac. You can ignore that. Just muddled thinking.
It’s a bit French though. The satire works, a sort of Candide ingenue traipsing their way through various hardships as lessons are learned, while at the same time spoofing the other side. The signposts are loud and clear however. Subtle it isn’t. Ruffalo as a cad misses the mark tho. He’s just not credibly that much of a bounder.
Visually great. Ms Stone was very brave too in terms of the nudity. That all worked without being titillating or voyueristic, which is not always easy to do.
7.9/10 for me Clive.
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I thought ruffalon was good as the cad who
Found he was in
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I have now seen Poor Things. Visually it's amazing and inventive. Acting all excellent, especially Stone (obvs) and Mark Ruffalo - I love him anyway and thought he was great as the cad and bounder. I liked the ending - liberation for BB and comeuppance for the appalling husband.
It's not peedo.
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