Poor Things (2023)
Figures
Objects & symbols
- The recurring use of extreme wide-angle and fisheye lenses
Form & technique
- Bella Baxter's complete narrative arc
- The film's transition from black-and-white to hypersaturated color
Tropes
- Bella Baxter's constructed body and brain → Cyborg Ontology
- The paternalistic and surgically invasive relationship between Godwin and Bella
- Bella's encounter with poverty in Alexandria and subsequent work in a Parisian brothel
- Emma Stone's physical performance, from her initial gait to her refined movements → Kinaesthetic Empathy
- The contrasting figures of Godwin Baxter, Duncan Wedderburn, and Max McCandles → The Fragile Alpha
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