Marianna Ciarlante 1 September 2023
There is a special moment at the end of a movie viewing when the lights are still off, the credits roll across the screen, and reality is still outside the theater. In that precise moment, when everyone is still silent, with a dreamy soul and with a light in their eyes that the darkness hides so as not to break the spell, there is all the magic of cinema. And it doesn’t always happen, but from time to time, this moment arrives and allows the seventh art to do what it was born to do: to excite. Today at the Venice Film Festival one of these moments occurred and it has reached the end of the vision of Poor Things, the new film by Yorgos Lanthimos. A film, that of the Greek director, who subverts conventions, ignores rules and respectability and gives the public, especially the female one, an unforgettable visual and emotional experience. With an extraordinary Emma Stone and a very good Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things is the true jewel of Venice 80, it is that mix of genius and madness that brings irreverence and charm, originality and foresight to the screen, making you leave the room humanly enriched and with the desire to live life according to your own rules and not those that society imposed, especially on women.
Con Poor Things, Lanthinos gives women voice, courage, power, beauty. It makes them strong, aware but above all free and manages to make people reflect on the contradictions of the world and on the role of women who are increasingly relegated to becoming what is expected of them by making the public go on an introspective journey aimed at breaking down their beliefs and revolutionizing the own way of life. Poor Things makes us reflect on sex, showing how satisfying and liberating it can be if lived without fears and prejudices, makes us rethink the role of science and then again that of religion, makes us reflect on power, money, the gap between rich and poor, suicide , about unhappiness, about marriage. And he does all this by making people laugh, entertaining and bringing to Venice a small female and feminist revolution that we really needed.
Thus, Emma Stone, who in the film plays Bella Baxter, a woman who comes back to life thanks to a scientific experiment that leaves her with an adult body and a child’s mind, becomes, with her character, a metaphor for rebirth, liberation and empowerment and reminds us how beautiful it is to live life with the purity of a child’s spirit and a mind not contaminated by the rot of social conventions.
Yorgos Lanthimos gives a beautiful life lesson to the viewers of his film, he gets them out of their mental schemes and shows how little is needed to change one’s life and make it authentic, real, unique. What matters to live well, after all, is to be oneself from beginning to end, to follow one’s nature and to live without being influenced by what the world expects of us. And if only we could live this life with more courage, following an example from the resourcefulness, the madness, the boldness of this character created by Lanthimos and masterfully interpreted by Emma Stone, everything would be more authentic, real, exciting and perhaps only then will we be able to free ourselves from our limits, insecurities and those social rules that crush us into a routine where we are never really ourselves and we never manage to express our full potential.
And if we were able to do all of this, like Bella Baxton did in Poor Things, well then our life would become a real show and the cinema would have done its duty.
vote: 8
2023-09-03 10:46:06
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