"There's been a slight misuse of the Substance."
Coralie Fargeat thinks women deserve better (but not the way you think). THE SUBSTANCE is a gross out, grandiose fuck you to flimsy feminist sentiments and media. The ultra-vapid dialogue and hypersexualizing camera seem like a subversion of the patriarchal eye, but in fact are a mockery of how easily Hollywood expects us to be won over by simple satires of objectification and beauty standards (Hello BARBIE!).
Fargeat plays into this easy…