Frankenstein's Lobotomized Mistress: Dissecting the Poor Things Discourse

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  @FinalGirlDigital · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  I hope you enjoyed this video!

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• EV

  @evilmilkmaid · 2 years ago

  Exactly. One of my friends told me "it is supposed to make you feel uncomfortable!" But it didn''t make me feel uncomfortable because it challenged my beliefs, it made me uncomfortable because I have seen way too much of it both in media and real life.

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• TA

  @tayahmower · 2 years ago

  "the people who are made uncomfortable are the people who are already aware of this phenomenon" SPOT ON

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• NI

  @nineteenfortyeight · 2 years ago

  I'm baffled by the filmmakers' decision to leave out the book's final twist: that the story as we've seen it is a fabrication by a man, and the woman's true story was quite different and less s3xual.

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• LD

  @LDrosophila · 2 years ago

  Not weaving the mother/daughter aspect into the story proves that it was nothing more than a male fantasy

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  @simpleton3781 · 2 years ago

  To be a daughter in the body of her mother does have potential to be hauntingly beautiful :/ and yet ….

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• SA

  @SalemSingsStuff · 2 years ago (edited)

  “Just because a film is self-aware, that doesn’t mean it isn’t perpetuating what it’s self-aware of.”

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• LI

  @Linsnicm17 · 2 years ago

  Also Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein because of the baby she lost. That’s also why it was so carefully and thoughtfully written out

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• SO

  @something8245 · 2 years ago

  I can technically excuse the lack of menstrual blood by saying it could be a side effect of a crude C-section Bella's mother underwent, or hypothermia in water, or something. But it is awfully convenient, and the lack of body hair is still ridiculous and has no leg to stand on

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  @charlotte7554 · 2 years ago

  I LOVED the line Ruffalo has about how she's losing her "adorable way of speaking" as she reads more. A throwaway line but I was glad for the enunciation of why he was so attracted to her re: born sexy yesterday

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  @river1216 · 2 years ago

  I was expecting this movie to be much more of a psychological horror than it ended up being. Not that Bella should not have been allowed to explore the world or her sexuality, or to have happy moments throughout, but the idea of a film exploring the idea of the terror of womanhood was so overlooked by the director. For god's sake, she was literally taken out of her mother's womb and transplanted into her head by a man without consent. She is constantly being trapped and controlled by men, but always shrugs it off and escapes, acting totally cavalier about it. I mean, upon finding out her own mother was so horrified to have Blessington's unborn child inside her, calling it a "monster," she ended her own life??? I really thought Bella would go through an identity crisis, but it seemed like she didn't care at all.

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  @laliclaudesol2350 · 2 years ago

  As an autistic girl, who was also se*ually abused as a child, this movie felt gross. I can kinda see SOME of the intention of &quot;yay feminist movie&quot; but any good point was completely overshadowed by the uncomfortable implications of &quot;Bella IS A CHILD, she does not understand certain things because her brain is not mature enough to understand these things&quot;. She is a child, she cannot consent (specifically to sex), she has a very poor and sheltered view of her surroundings. And yet she is presented to be &quot;sexually liberated&quot; when she is being exploited and never ever realises she was subject of abuse? How is that feminist? I have to say, when watching some specific scenes, my own trauma came back to me and hit me quite hard, which is not a very feminist thing for a movie to do: to make se*ual abused victims see their trauma on a screen. Also, as a disabled person who has so much trouble fitting in socially (autism mainly, but also attention deficit disorder) I felt so invalidated &nbsp;by the fact that Bella never learns how exploited she has been, and how society actually works. Her naivety is portrayed as desirable, her ignorance is seen as attractive and se*y, and her innocence is seen as something men can exploit without the film acknowledging she cannot give consent. As a victim of se*ual abuse when I was a child, this movie made ME feel kind of responsible for what happened to me. Because Bella never looks back to what happened with anger, remorse, shame, fear or frustration, as a victim often does. I was full of disgust with the many uncomfortable sex scenes, not because of the act per se, but because I was aware Bella was mentally a child (while also looking and acting like a neurodivergent person) and yet the movie kept portraying that as liberating and empowering. I didn&apos;t feel empowered at all. A person can be feminist without constant sex, or without super high sex drive. A person can be a feminist AND feel negative feelings when realising they have been abused in the past. A person can be feminist AND acknowledging they have had toxic people (or just bad people) in their lives. But Bella has numerous sex partners without protection or fear of pregnancy, STDs, or hygiene, and she is our &quot;feminist empowered protagonist&quot; (also apparently she never menstruates, she doesn&apos;t have body hair, she is presented as a doll in cute outlandish outfits). This movie claims to be feminist, but it&apos;s also immensely gratifying to men. Bella&apos;s nude scenes when she is a toddler could open the discourse of ped*s looking at children in gross ways and not being called out. The man who looks at nude Bella while she sleeps as a baby ends up marrying her, for god&apos;s sake! And that is supposed to be a satisfying ending? Also, as Bella grows, she seems to only experience pleasure in many ways, not confusion, discomfort or frustration. Yes she talks like a child for most of the film, but we only get a &quot;haha look, a grown woman who babytalks and acts silly without social etiquette&quot; viewpoint. <br>This is getting long. Sorry. Anyway, although I can kinda see what the movie wanted to do, it did not deliver in my opinion. It wanted to be self-aware, and yet the main character never gets to be fully self-aware herself. It was aesthetically pleasing with the costumes and backgrounds, but that&apos;s about all I can praise. Disappointing but with some potential that could have been good.

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