{"id":47845,"date":"2024-02-27T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=47845"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:50:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T19:50:50","slug":"poor-things-yorgos-lanthimos-2023-ireland-united-kingdom-united-states-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=47845","title":{"rendered":"Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023): Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Mia Velazquez. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2024, Arlington Theatre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/poor_things_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47897 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/poor_things_1-325x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"249\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/poor_things_1-325x244.jpg 325w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/poor_things_1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/poor_things_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/poor_things_1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>P<\/strong>retending to be &#8220;God,&#8221; mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter creates life in his lab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>O<\/strong>ur female Frankenstein, Bella Baxter, is created from the body of a drown woman and the brain of her unborn infant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>O<\/strong>dd behaviors are displayed by Bella, as she grows and develops with her infant&#8217;s brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>R<\/strong>oles and equal rights of women in society are questioned and challenged by Bella.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>T<\/strong>he concept of acceptable behaviors in polite society are explored and\/or ignored by Bella.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>H<\/strong>appiness and deep sorrow in the world are discovered by Bella on her adventures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>I<\/strong>nnocence is lost with the harsh realities of life and the evils of humanity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>N<\/strong>ew gender roles are explored, and Bella is not restricted or imprisoned by the abuse of her past life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Go<\/strong>dwin Baxter gives his human creation Bella free will, just as God gives to all mankind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>S<\/strong>ocietal roles are shifted and\/or reversed as Bella discovers the violent and confusing world around her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>THEMES<\/strong>: &#8220;Poor Things&#8221; represents the poor humans, suffering under the restrictions of society, imprisoned by their own rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MV5BNGIyYWMzNjktNDE3MC00YWQyLWEyMmEtN2ZmNzZhZDk3NGJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-47938\" src=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MV5BNGIyYWMzNjktNDE3MC00YWQyLWEyMmEtN2ZmNzZhZDk3NGJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_-219x325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MV5BNGIyYWMzNjktNDE3MC00YWQyLWEyMmEtN2ZmNzZhZDk3NGJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_-219x325.jpg 219w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MV5BNGIyYWMzNjktNDE3MC00YWQyLWEyMmEtN2ZmNzZhZDk3NGJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MV5BNGIyYWMzNjktNDE3MC00YWQyLWEyMmEtN2ZmNzZhZDk3NGJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MV5BNGIyYWMzNjktNDE3MC00YWQyLWEyMmEtN2ZmNzZhZDk3NGJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/MV5BNGIyYWMzNjktNDE3MC00YWQyLWEyMmEtN2ZmNzZhZDk3NGJlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTUzMTg2ODkz._V1_.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Mia Velazquez. Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2024, Arlington Theatre. Pretending to be &#8220;God,&#8221; mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter creates life in his lab. Our female Frankenstein, Bella Baxter, is created from the body of a drown woman and the brain of her unborn infant. Odd behaviors are displayed by Bella, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193,3,431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/249133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47845"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48034,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47845\/revisions\/48034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}