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meticulousfragments · 6 months

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I don’t know if anyone else who follows me has both read the book and seen the movie Poor Things

But I read it this week and watched the movie last night and I feel like I need to talk about it with someone because it’s still rattling around in my head

#visually the movie was absolutely stunning. deserved the production awards it got without a doubt #and some of the changes I really did enjoy #the change in camera and filming style to fit tone was amazing in ways I don’t have the film vocab to fully compliment #making Godwin also somewhat monstrous but also adding the aspect of felicity was something I found so interesting bc he SHOULD becomplicated #dafoe was great with that complication though #and I liked that it was focused more on Bella and not filtered through two different men’s views #(even though I do think those filters were very much part of the point in the book it wouldn’t have worked as well in a movie)#some of the plot streamlining made a lot of sense. making everything in the house feel unreal was a great choice #I do think they made McCandless come off sweeter than I found him in the book? maybe just bc the actor was charming idk #ruffalo was excellent playing a man who Sucks #the Alexandria moment I liked but I feel like beyond that they really glossed over some of the themes of class and healthcare disparity?#Paris touched on it for sure but it felt more present in the books esp with including Bella’s career #and I don’t know how I feel about the ending #I understand making it more hopeful than the book. but what she did with the general I’m kind of. meh. can’t decide #but I also didn’t fully love the ending of the book either so idk how I feel overall #but this will be a story that stays with me I think

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