{"id":621151,"date":"2024-05-20T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-cathartically-fun-and-extreme-feminist-body-horror\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T21:50:00","slug":"watch-cathartically-fun-and-extreme-feminist-body-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cathartically-fun-and-extreme-feminist-body-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Cathartically Fun and Extreme Feminist Body Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a3ef13a45\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35a3ef13a45\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cathartically-fun-and-extreme-feminist-body-horror\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Cathartically_Fun_and_Extreme_Feminist_Body_Horror%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Cathartically Fun and Extreme Feminist Body Horror&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-cathartically-fun-and-extreme-feminist-body-horror\/#%E2%80%9CCathartically_Fun_and_Extreme_Feminist_Body_Horror%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Cathartically Fun and Extreme Feminist Body Horror&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Cathartically_Fun_and_Extreme_Feminist_Body_Horror%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Cathartically Fun and Extreme Feminist Body Horror&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CCathartically_Fun_and_Extreme_Feminist_Body_Horror%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Cathartically Fun and Extreme Feminist Body Horror&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Shocking and resonant, disarmingly grotesque and weirdly fun, \u201cThe Substance\u201d is a feminist body-horror film that should be shown in movie theaters all over the land. By that, I don\u2019t mean that it\u2019s some elegant exercise in egghead darkness like the films of David Cronenberg, or a patchy postmodern punk curio like \u201cTitane.\u201d Coralie Fargeat, the writer-director of \u201cThe Substance,\u201d has a voice that\u2019s italicized, in-your-face, garishly accessible and thrillingly extreme. She draws on much of the hyperbolic flamboyance that\u2019s come to define megaplex horror. But unlike 90 percent of those <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, \u201cThe Substance\u201d is the work of a filmmaker with a vision. She\u2019s got something primal to say to us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe Substance\u201d tells the story of an aging Hollywood actress-turned-aerobics-workout-host, named Elisabeth Sparkle and played by Demi Moore, who gets fired from a TV network because she is now deemed too old. In a rage of desperation, she calls a number that\u2019s been handed to her anonymously and gets hooked up with a sinister sci-fi body-enhancement program known as The Substance. She is given a heap of medical equipment sealed into plastic bags (syringes, tubing, a phosphorescent green liquid, a gooey white injectable food product), and she\u2019s told about the protocol regarding her new self \u2014 which, the program warns, will also be her old self. \u201cThe two of you are one,\u201d say the instructions. What does that mean?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It means that after she gives herself the injections, Elisabeth passes out on the bathroom floor, her skin splits open right down the spine, and, like the pod people emerging from human beings in \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers,\u201d out comes her new self: a \u201cperfect\u201d specimen of sexy vibrant youthful womanhood played by Margaret Qualley. The deal is this: The young replacement, named Sue, can go out into the world and rule \u2014 for one week. And she does, getting her own workout show (called \u201cPump It Up with Sue\u201d). A star is born. But then she has to lay down, in hibernation, while Elisabeth, in her same old face and body, is up and around again. The two trade off, feeding each other, so that Elisabeth gets to \u201cbe\u201d Sue every other week. It\u2019s like \u201cDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u201d retold as a dream\/nightmare of the trillion-dollar culture of cosmetic enhancement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Fargeat, who has made one previous feature (2017\u2019s \u201cRevenge\u201d), works in a wide-angle-lens, up-from-exploitation style that might be described as cartoon grindhouse Kubrick. It\u2019s like \u201cA Clockwork Orange\u201d fused with the kinetic aesthetics of a state-of-the-art television commercial. Fargeat favors super-close-ups (of body parts, cars, eating, kissing), with sounds to match, and she also vacuums up influences the way Brian De Palma once did (though he, in this case, is one of them). We\u2019ve all seen dozens of retreads of the Jekyll-and-Hyde story, but Fargeat, in her imaginative audacity, fuses it with \u201cShowgirls,\u201d and even that isn\u2019t enough for her. She draws heavily on the hallucinatory moment in \u201cThe Shining\u201d where Jack Torrance embraces a young woman in a bathtub, only to see her transformed into a cackling old crone. Beyond that, Fargeat\u2018s images recall the exploding-beast-with-a-writhing-face in John Carpenter\u2019s \u201cThe Thing,\u201d the bloodbath prom of \u201cCarrie,\u201d and the addiction-turned-dread of \u201cRequiem for a Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What makes all of this original is that Coralie Fargeat fuses it with her own stylized aggro voice (she favors minimal dialogue, which pops like something out of a graphic novel), and with her feminist outrage over the way that women have been ruled by the world of images. At first, though, the over-the-top-ness does take a bit of getting used. Dennis Quaid plays the brash pig of a network executive, in baroquely decorated suit jackets, who has decided to fire Elisabeth, and when he\u2019s having lunch with her, shoving shrimp in his mouth from what feels like four inches away from the audience, you want to recoil as much as she does. But Fageat is actually great with her actors; she knows that Quaid\u2019s charisma, even when he\u2019s playing a showbiz vulgarian as reprehensible as this, will make him highly watchable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And Demi Moore\u2019s performance is nothing short of fearless. She\u2019s playing, in some very abstract way, a version of herself (once a star at the center of the universe, now old enough to be seen by sexist Hollywood as past it), and her acting is rippled with anger, terror, despair, and vengeance. There\u2019s a lot of full-on nudity in \u201cThe Substance,\u201d to the point that the film flirts with building a male gaze into the foundation of its aesthetic. Yet it does so only to pull the rug of voyeurism out from under us. Margaret Qualley makes Sue crisply magnetic in her confidence, and the fact that Sue knows how to package herself as an \u201cobject\u201d is part of the film\u2019s satirical design. She\u2019s following the rules, \u201cgiving the people what they want.\u201d It\u2019s clear, I think, that Qualley is going to be a major star, and you see why here. She takes this stylized role and imbues it with a hint of mystery. For \u201cThe Substance\u201d is finally a story of dueling egos, with Elisabeth\u2019s real self and her enhanced self going at each other in a war for dominance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    They\u2019re supposed to be comrades \u2013 indeed, the same person \u2014 but when Sue, high on being Sue, overstays her week, and has to feed off an extra bit of Elisabeth\u2019s sustaining fuel, she\u2019s taking the life energy from Elisabeth. And Elisabeth will pay the price; her body parts will begin to age. The movie\u2019s metaphors are vividly organic. In our world, you can attain, through physical enhancement, a \u201cnew\u201d self, but the film is saying that when you do you\u2019re a parasite who\u2019s leeching off your old self, and maybe your real self. There\u2019s only so much <em>you<\/em> to go around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cThe Substance\u201d does indeed play off \u201cShowgirls\u201d and the whole history of Hollywood cat-fight melodramas. The movie, in its visceral way, is deliriously ambitious (and, at 140 minutes, easily 20 minutes too long). But as it moves into the final chapter, its relatively restrained interface with body horror erupts into something cathartic in its extremity. Sue, at this point, has taken most of the life from Elisabeth, which means that Elisabeth has turned into a body so decrepit she makes the bathtub hag in \u201cThe Shining\u201d look like Grace Kelly. But Fargeat is just getting started. The climactic sequence is set during the taping of the network\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve special, which Sue has been chosen to host, and what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens there must be seen to be believed. Even if you watch horror movies all year long, this is still one of the rare ones to come up with a true <em>monster<\/em>, not just a mass of warped flesh but a deformation of the spirit. This, the film says, is what we\u2019re repressing. It\u2019s what we\u2019re doing to ourselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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