I have watched all the Oscar 2024 best picture nominations and this is the only one I couldn't make it through. It turned my stomach.
Let's start with the fact the lead character commits suicide and a man decides to reanimate her. Equality has been a topic that I thought we'd made progress on in recent years, but here we have a woman not even allowed to die as a man has to interfere in that process.
But I could have gotten over that.
If it were spun into a positive story about embracing life, redemption, second chances the story could have won me over.
What won't win me over: paedophiles and kiddy sex.
Because as you soon learn, it's actually a baby's brain in the adult body.
Oh how we laughed how a child dealt with an adult body and started pleasuring itself. Much lols.
Or the assistant who knows it's a child but wants to marry and have sex with the baby, bravo.
The lawyer may not know the full story, but is clearly happy to have sex with what is clearly a mentally impaired person. The child's "father" decides to lend her out for sex like paedophiles do.
When the child says to the grown man "Lie down on top of me and do more furious jumping" the childlike innocence contrasting with the sexual acts - and her not fully understanding what they are - was the end of it for me.
I don't understand how this stands as a piece of cinema and one that is nominated too.
If it's some lesson about the ugliness of men then it's gone too far in its aims, and its colourful, creative setting just undermines that.
Let's start with the fact the lead character commits suicide and a man decides to reanimate her. Equality has been a topic that I thought we'd made progress on in recent years, but here we have a woman not even allowed to die as a man has to interfere in that process.
But I could have gotten over that.
If it were spun into a positive story about embracing life, redemption, second chances the story could have won me over.
What won't win me over: paedophiles and kiddy sex.
Because as you soon learn, it's actually a baby's brain in the adult body.
Oh how we laughed how a child dealt with an adult body and started pleasuring itself. Much lols.
Or the assistant who knows it's a child but wants to marry and have sex with the baby, bravo.
The lawyer may not know the full story, but is clearly happy to have sex with what is clearly a mentally impaired person. The child's "father" decides to lend her out for sex like paedophiles do.
When the child says to the grown man "Lie down on top of me and do more furious jumping" the childlike innocence contrasting with the sexual acts - and her not fully understanding what they are - was the end of it for me.
I don't understand how this stands as a piece of cinema and one that is nominated too.
If it's some lesson about the ugliness of men then it's gone too far in its aims, and its colourful, creative setting just undermines that.