This film is a journey through the absurdities of life that are conventionally accepted by society.
Bella is brought back to life by a scientist who swapped her brain with the one of a newborn, so she sees and experience the world without any social lens and she is indeed free from all the little things that cage us - she doesn't marry the guy her "father" wants her to marry, she's curious, seeks adventure and she looks at sex as a way to make herself feel happy.
I don't know if i read it correctly, but one of the themes that I see in this movie is the "belonging", as in "if I belong to someone I have to make sacrifices in order to be with that person, or I need to behave in a certain way to be worthy of this person", which has been a leitmotif of women's lives though out the centuries.
With Bella we don't see this kind of dynamic, because she acts only to make herself feel joy and happiness, so her happiness doesn't belong outside of anyone else and she has power over it.
Bella teaches us the importance of freedom at all costs, even when we are making the worst decision but it's OUR decision and we will face the consequences of it.
Love is often mistaken with possess, God loves Bella = he wants her to never leave her house.
The Lawyer loves her = he kidnaps her and brings her on a boat.
I personally love that she never feels sorry or desperate or in need to be saved, she is her own hero!
I really loved the fact that there are no good or bad characters, everyone has flaws and perks, even the protagonist herself.
Emma Stone is INCREDIBLE in this, she made me forgot she was acting, Defoe gives us a genius portrait of a mad genius, without being a caricature.
This has to be my favorite out of all the Lanthimos movies.
Bella is brought back to life by a scientist who swapped her brain with the one of a newborn, so she sees and experience the world without any social lens and she is indeed free from all the little things that cage us - she doesn't marry the guy her "father" wants her to marry, she's curious, seeks adventure and she looks at sex as a way to make herself feel happy.
I don't know if i read it correctly, but one of the themes that I see in this movie is the "belonging", as in "if I belong to someone I have to make sacrifices in order to be with that person, or I need to behave in a certain way to be worthy of this person", which has been a leitmotif of women's lives though out the centuries.
With Bella we don't see this kind of dynamic, because she acts only to make herself feel joy and happiness, so her happiness doesn't belong outside of anyone else and she has power over it.
Bella teaches us the importance of freedom at all costs, even when we are making the worst decision but it's OUR decision and we will face the consequences of it.
Love is often mistaken with possess, God loves Bella = he wants her to never leave her house.
The Lawyer loves her = he kidnaps her and brings her on a boat.
I personally love that she never feels sorry or desperate or in need to be saved, she is her own hero!
I really loved the fact that there are no good or bad characters, everyone has flaws and perks, even the protagonist herself.
Emma Stone is INCREDIBLE in this, she made me forgot she was acting, Defoe gives us a genius portrait of a mad genius, without being a caricature.
This has to be my favorite out of all the Lanthimos movies.
