Poor Things: feminist or degrading?

Although frequently inventive and aesthetically striking, Poor Things (2023) perpetuates certain conventional tropes surrounding female sexuality and women's humanity. Is it making a point about the horrors of the world - or is it just a bad film?

Time stamps:
00:00 - Excessively wooden preamble
00:45 - First shots fired
00:59 - Personal introductions
01:23 - What's the film about?
02:43 - What worked about it?
03:55 - Questioning the prominence of hypersexual experiences
05:23 - Part 1. Conflating sexual awakening with emotional maturity
09:12 - Part 2. Who gets to be a human?
14:42 - Part 3. The danger of presenting women as bodies
21:24 - Conclusion (so is the film terrible?)
23:02 - Farewell + free travel advice

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