On a positive note: some genuinely innovative body horror and timely themes in the age of GLP-1 agonists.
Weirdly, I had the same issues with this that I did with Everything Everywhere All at Once. No subtlety, no subtext. Media literacy is in decline, but movies like this rising to the forefront of supposedly “arthouse” cinema are only making it worse. If a character is contemplating something, don’t have a giant disembodied voice say what they’re thinking. “Show don’t tell”…
One of a handful of films that was probably made better because of the existence of the Hayes code. The constant effort Hitchcock had to exert to maintain such overt “subtext” makes the dialogue that much more playful and tense. Also, the perfect film to utilize the long take because it lets the actors get to work in an almost theatrical sense.
The synopsis feels like something that’d be developed in a nympho wars skit .
Somehow not AS bad as I was expecting, but definitely still a mess. The “music” was basically just lyrical dialogue with occasional diegetic instruments and was a huge miss as well. If this wins best picture I’ll tweak.
Every time someone opened a window during this movie there was a huge sudden draft in the theater. It started to feel like a giant practical 4D joke.
Overall, loyal to the source material in the exact amount I had hoped for. The only thematic element he really added was FUCKING and that’s ok I guess.
