Text I sent in the gc just after watching- “What the god’s honest fuck did i just watch like actually”
Interestingly enough though, while it seems a lot of people read this as a critique on beauty standards I was focused more on the “substance” part- it seemed pretty clearly like a metaphor for substance abuse, where eventually you get so out of control it consumes you. The part where Elisabeth is literally withering away with the option to stop but she wouldn’t to “protect” Sue was jarring and real in that perspective.
