NB: This post contains a few spoilers from the movie Poor Things, including details which are not for the squeamish.
Let me tell you the precise moment when I lost all interest in Poor Things. It was when Emma Stone’s character, Bella Baxter, gets trapped in the lavish Victorian home of a man who is in some sense both her father and her former husband. Initially she finds him “interesting” (her favorite word) but he quickly turns out to be a sadistic tyrant who tortures the help for fun and wants to cut off Bella’s clitoris.
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