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Elle 2016
Watching the crushing disappointment that is Anora made me think back to this far superior film. The (rather stupid) question Anora poses about trust/consent is whether being betrayed by a duplicitous narcissist like Vanya is in fact more violating than being physically restrained by a supposedly decent man like Igor - the former a violation of the spirit, the latter of the body. The contrast is set up in such a drawn out, heavy-handed way that one gets to wondering…
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The Substance 2024
Feel the need to circle back and cape for this upon rewatch, especially given the predictably moralizing, dour tone of the backlash reviews out there, which misunderstand the movie so completely it's almost impressive.
It's no secret that The Substance is a satirical riff on Gothic horror: monsters, hybrids, doubles/Doppelgangers, houses with secret chambers, giant portraits, decadence, flirtations with death, oozing flesh, strange substances, sexual deviance. The Gothic text that came most insistently to mind the first time around was…
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