movie The Substance | Demi Moore & Margaret Qualley Body Horror | Sept 20

[Lorelei]

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There are so many layers to this and what struck me the most was the parallel to addiction. Both Elisabeth and Sue abuse the substance at some point and although the supplier keeps asking Elisabeth if she wants to stop the experience, she refuses and goes back to binge eating as punishment to Sue who then has body image nightmares. Whenever she's confronted with conseuquences she disassociates by acting as if the two are different people.

This could apply to our addiction to social media, cosmetic enhancements, fad diets, unhealthy habits we can't break away from etc. It's about control over our image and the dread of losing it (ex. "You have to control yourself!") 

And then Elisasue being described as a Picasso of the male gaze hits so real. Women are seen as fragments, especially on media, never as full human beings.

Coralie took that and made it literal; that's what the third act symbolizes and points out the irony.

[Enrique523]

6 hours ago, UnderratedVocalist said:

The only thing that kinda bothered me a lot - and I know this is a movie. How did Sue get TV deals and ****? She's not a registered human, no ID, no nothing. How did she sign her deal? How did she open a bank account? Until she got paid, was she using Elizabeth's Credit Cards?

You're not supposed to think too deeply about it. This is not a movie that's supposed to be very realistic, you have to suspend your disbelief.

[fossora]

Playing Anna Von Hausswolff for the finale????? I nearly lost my shitttt 

[fossora]

Yall should really watch Helter Skelter if you enjoyed this movie

 

[Dula Peep]

Monstro Elisasue you will always be famous 

[Shelter]

Just seen it. Demi deserves everything, she was absolutely brilliant. Did she have to look like Glenn Close … 

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When she had the hunch back 

 I swear it reminded me of Glenn in the Deliverance 
 

The movie was great until the ending, it kinda lost me then unfortunately. 

[Whis]

Just finished this movie.
I would stan Sue

 

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The second face on Monstro Elisasue having veneers

 

[Enrique523]

21 hours ago, Shelter said:

Just seen it. Demi deserves everything, she was absolutely brilliant. Did she have to look like Glenn Close … 

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When she had the hunch back 

 I swear it reminded me of Glenn in the Deliverance 
 

The movie was great until the ending, it kinda lost me then unfortunately. 

...mess, i have yet to watch The Deliverance, i'm curious now 

[shookspeare]

omg I just saw this last night not even knowing what I was going into and I've never seen a movie this insane. I think it might be one of my favorite movies ever, I was literally speechless for about an hour after

[Mr. Loco]

On 10/18/2024 at 5:53 AM, shark_heather said:

Logic ? 

Gurl Sue came out of Elizabeth's back and then Sue sew her and everything was fine 🤣

 

The movie is full of symbolism,  logic is out of the window 

 

And that's why it will be not a contender this award season, so many plot holes that could've been easily dealed with, but instead writers didn't want to think about it and used movie magic as an explanation for everything. 

[Thor]

MOVIE OF THE YEAR!

 

Give Demi all the awards!

[STMG23]

2 hours ago, Mr. Loco said:

And that's why it will be not a contender this award season, so many plot holes that could've been easily dealed with, but instead writers didn't want to think about it and used movie magic as an explanation for everything. 

Those are NOT plot holes 

[Kern]

3 hours ago, Mr. Loco said:

And that's why it will be not a contender this award season

The movie has a logic of its own, is its own universe. Like musical Chicago, Lynch's movies etc. The director didn't bother with trying to be realistic because it doesn't matter, that's not the point

[Uncatena]

5 hours ago, Mr. Loco said:

And that's why it will be not a contender this award season, so many plot holes that could've been easily dealed with, but instead writers didn't want to think about it and used movie magic as an explanation for everything. 

this is a fairytale and it couldn't be more obvious. bring back media literacy. 

[KFC]

Are there any clip compilations of the body horror parts? I want to see them but I don't want to watch the whole movie

[NoAngelus]

9 hours ago, KFC said:

Are there any clip compilations of the body horror parts? I want to see them but I don't want to watch the whole movie

Why not just watch the movie??

[KFC]

Just now, NoAngelus said:

Why not just watch the movie??

I don't have time

[Tylerbv]

I have no idea what I just watched

 

Demi killed it though! I'm unsure what I feel about the ending, but the middle third of the movie was amazing.

[blaggot]

9 hours ago, KFC said:

I don't have time

make time! you'll want to see all of it within context to get the full effect imo

[Mr. Loco]

22 hours ago, Kern said:

The movie has a logic of its own, is its own universe. Like musical Chicago, Lynch's movies etc. The director didn't bother with trying to be realistic because it doesn't matter, that's not the point

 

21 hours ago, Uncatena said:

this is a fairytale and it couldn't be more obvious. bring back media literacy. 

Even fairytales have some stablished rules to their own universes and follow them through the story, unlike this where things happen just for the sake of it.

 

By the way, I'm by no means a hater, I actually enjoyed it and think it is a very good film, and for the most part, greatly written, but somehow filled with some scenes more worthy of Scary movie than a Lynch film (and I'm talking mostly about the last 20 minutes of the film). At least, for me, those scenes took me out of the film, and stopped it from being one of my favorites of the year.

[HonourableVomit]

2 hours ago, Mr. Loco said:

 

Even fairytales have some stablished rules to their own universes and follow them through the story, unlike this where things happen just for the sake of it.

 

By the way, I'm by no means a hater, I actually enjoyed it and think it is a very good film, and for the most part, greatly written, but somehow filled with some scenes more worthy of Scary movie than a Lynch film (and I'm talking mostly about the last 20 minutes of the film). At least, for me, those scenes took me out of the film, and stopped it from being one of my favorites of the year.

The Scary Movie comparison is apt because this is actually a comedy and a satire of Hollywood. 

[XxHeadstrongxX]

Kslfnfkfkfb that movie was funny af. I couldn't believe what I watched. Bravo 

[Mr. Blue_Shirt]

This movie has Elisabeth when she was equivalent to a 70-year-old, got her knee dislocated when she sat for too long, and at 120-year-old she was running around her big ass house, dragging the hell out of Sue, and somehow some people really expected this movie to be realistic

 

C'mon, be serious lol

[leyaris11]

I watch this in theater, the whole theater was gasp when 

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Sue kicked the oldie, deformed Elisabeth....lol

The theater was packed, the whole audiences claps when the movie ended. This movies was good, weird, gory and overall sadden.  Well, it's been a while since we have a body horror as good as this. 

Edited October 22 by leyaris11

[Bittersweet.]

On 10/18/2024 at 10:47 AM, fossora said:

Yall should really watch Helter Skelter if you enjoyed this movie

 

One of my favorites movies, a 10/10. I love beautiful movies about starlets