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The Substance 2024
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Some have said "Elizabeth Sparkle is clearly not the villain." I would disagree. Maybe they want her to be a victim, or a feminist hero, or just a "fully developed" character. Why do we ask so much of Elizabeth Sparkle?
First, there are no characters in The Substance. Don't look for them. There are thematic caricatures at best. Not as a dig, I think this choice is not cowardly or bad writing. I would argue that to develop "characters" is…
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