The Substance Ending Explained - What it's REALLY about

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  @MadMorphMovieClub · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @konstantinrybalsky3565 · 1 year ago

  It was very noticeable that she had no friends, no family, no support network of any kind. She physically and literally disappeared and nobody showed up to look for her.

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  @415Dwilliams · 2 years ago

  It really just broke my heart when Elisabeth was unable to leave the house and go on her date. She was just so much in her own head at the time. Crippled by her own thoughts.

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• NI

  @niiknook · 2 years ago

  &quot;the only moment of relief that the character gets is when she doesn&apos;t have a body&quot; my jaw dropped.

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• SS

  @ssamelion1sard914 · 1 year ago (edited)

  The bathroom being the hub of the changing and switching is also key. It is a room where we are most vulnerable, most frequently naked, and where we serum, contour, primp, fluff and transform ourselves into our &quot;best/tolerable self&quot; while leaving the plain/old version in the bathroom - either symbolically on the floor or in the mirror. &nbsp;The cycle to repeat by returning and removing it all and starting the same cycle the next day.

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• CH

  @christinak2443 · 1 year ago

  I’ve worked in plastic surgery for a few years. And it reminded me of how 1 procedure can turn out to 10 procedures to “fix things” until you’re a mess.

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• TA

  @Tadv777 · 1 year ago

  Who else thinks it’s SUPER badass of Demi Moore to play this role? Considering her experience with plastic surgeries/injections and all. Powerful stuff

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  @1derb0y · 2 years ago

  If she loved herself more, she would&apos;ve used The Substance more responsibly; but then again, if she loved herself more she wouldn&apos;t have taken The Substance to begin with.

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• AN

  @angelabrolund1373 · 2 years ago

  At the end when she says to the crowd &quot;It is still me.&quot;, is self-acceptance.

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• BR

  @bri9595 · 1 year ago

  When she’s reviving her clone and said “you’re the only part of me that’s lovable” I sobbed so hard

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• KE

  @kelkabot · 1 year ago

  55-year-old woman here, and for the first time in my life I don’t have beautifully toned abs; things are just starting to soften. &nbsp;I was feeling disgusted with my body. &nbsp;But ‘The Substance’ helps me realize I have so much authentic beauty and I don’t owe the world the body of an 18-year-old.

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  @GoToHaveSoul · 2 years ago

  I also feel like the stage scene at the end is a representation of what society pressures women to do to themselves and when they go too far, the very same society mocks them and calls them monsters.

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