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- Greg Macarthur
- Poor Things Calls For Socialist Feminism By Challenging Status Quo. Poor Things expands on its fundamental stance as a feminist masterpiece by including radical forms of feminist theory that pertain to broader areas of socialism and Marxism.
- Duncan Wedderburn Represents The Trappings Of “Polite Society” Duncan surprisingly becomes a major part of Poor Things as a foil to the "rebellious" and "uncivilized" Bella through the eyes of conformity.
- Poor Things Exposes Masculine Social Expectations & Insecurities. Poor Things does an excellent, and hilarious, job at driving straight into the heart of masculine insecurities underneath the protective expectations of the patriarchy.
- Bella Baxter Is Empowered By Having Agency In Her Choices. Female empowerment and agency are the driving forces behind feminist theory in general, which is put on full display through Bella's unstoppable determination to do as she pleases.
Feb 2, 2024 · It stars Emma Stone as a Victorian woman whose brain is replaced with that of her unborn baby. She embarks on a sexual journey of self-discovery through Europe and beyond. The film is a critical ...
Dec 13, 2023 · 'Poor Things' owes its free-spirited feminism to the complicated legacy of Mary Shelley and 'Frankenstein.'
- Cady Lang
Feb 2, 2024 · Poor Things tells the story of Bella Baxter, played by Emma Stone. She’s a young woman in Victorian London whose brain has been replaced by a baby’s brain. When the film starts, she’s a grown...
Feb 21, 2024 · 'Poor Things' director Yorgos Lanthimos is weighing in on feminist readings of the Oscar-nominated film — but he'd rather not get into an 'analytic conversation about what it means.'
Feb 7, 2024 · How ‘Poor Things’ became an absurdist feminist masterpiece. by Mina Tobya February 7, 2024. This image is from the official website for “Poor Things” distributed by Searchlight Pictures. In the realm of film criticism, the word “masterpiece” gets thrown around more often than it should.
Dec 6, 2023 · Poor Things follows the exploits and mental evolution of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a reanimated corpse of a woman with the mind of a child, brought to life by the emotionally and literally...
