Always carve with compassion.

Poor Things – 3.5/5

I enjoyed it but what lingers with me is mostly how little I have to say about it. It feels like another side of 'Barbie,' a movie about expectations placed on women, and then what happens when a girl gets to grow up in an adult body, loosed from those expectations. She is free to pursue, and to learn everything on her own terms, and to be whole resultingly. I think men get to forget that they are men, and women are always reminded that they are women. Women are meant to feel bad, and Bella doesn't. This is a good message, and well-done, and unique in its look and approach, and I can't quite touch the thing inside me that made the whole of the thing not register for me.