I get it, people are curious about sex but this so-called 'arthouse' movie is just so wrong on so many levels.
To be as objective as possible I will disclose that I am a writer and the first issue straight off the bat is this premise that a dead woman has had her unborn fetus' brain implanted inside her head.
I know science can be weird and implausible and this storyline borrows heavily from Frankenstein but there is a thing called A REALLY MESSED UP IDEA. We are basically asking the audience to accept the concept of butchering a woman's body who then 'blossoms' into a sex-a-holic. So we can think it's cute and laugh and stare at her. There's no dignity for her soul. Quasimodo had dignity, Edward Scissorhands had dignity, but here she has none.
The director asserts that it was 'important for the character that she did not feel embarrassed or ashamed'. The director is a pervert going by his other films where all the actresses get gratuiously naked. Nudity in itself is not shameful, but exploiting it is.
William Dafoe was in Body of Evidence with Madonna, Mark Ruffalo was in In The Cut, both erotic thrillers. Which is fine, just own it that you have some sort of weird fetish to be in these types of movies.
The ultimate question is: did the lead character of Bella Baxter really need to be implanted with a baby brain? If the storyline is already stretching the limits of believability, couldn't they have just brought the dead woman back to life and carry on as normal? Or is it wrong to show a fully grown mature woman enjoying sex with lots of random men, so they had to make her stupid and innocent to make her more 'appealing' to the audience?
I rest my case.
To be as objective as possible I will disclose that I am a writer and the first issue straight off the bat is this premise that a dead woman has had her unborn fetus' brain implanted inside her head.
I know science can be weird and implausible and this storyline borrows heavily from Frankenstein but there is a thing called A REALLY MESSED UP IDEA. We are basically asking the audience to accept the concept of butchering a woman's body who then 'blossoms' into a sex-a-holic. So we can think it's cute and laugh and stare at her. There's no dignity for her soul. Quasimodo had dignity, Edward Scissorhands had dignity, but here she has none.
The director asserts that it was 'important for the character that she did not feel embarrassed or ashamed'. The director is a pervert going by his other films where all the actresses get gratuiously naked. Nudity in itself is not shameful, but exploiting it is.
William Dafoe was in Body of Evidence with Madonna, Mark Ruffalo was in In The Cut, both erotic thrillers. Which is fine, just own it that you have some sort of weird fetish to be in these types of movies.
The ultimate question is: did the lead character of Bella Baxter really need to be implanted with a baby brain? If the storyline is already stretching the limits of believability, couldn't they have just brought the dead woman back to life and carry on as normal? Or is it wrong to show a fully grown mature woman enjoying sex with lots of random men, so they had to make her stupid and innocent to make her more 'appealing' to the audience?
I rest my case.
