The difference in cookie cutter dramas and movies like this is awe inspiring. The drtail and imagination that goes into making a film like this comes thru in a shocking manner. Finally we see a comedic dark twisted gilm that feature many great performances by actors who took alot of risks to even do a movie like this. Although it mimics Frankenstein at times the story twists into a twisted and sexual situational film about a woman finding her true identity in society. The film is shot in a great perspective snd the mix of color and black and white makes it even better, kind of like a twisted Wizard of Oz.

It happens rarely, but occasionally something reminds me of just how powerful a collection of of creative minds can be, their achievement towering over the rest of the form. Colloborative art is so difficult and usually results in something mediocre with the edges shaved off.

Not this masterpiece. Gorgeous sets, unbelievably weird music, and actors at their best, all under the steady hand of director Yorgos Mavropsaridis. I adored the Lobster, and this utterly bizarre feast for the eyes suggests this guy is as good as anybody working today. It reminds me of the great Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director of Delicatessen, City of Lost Children and Amélie, who easily makes my top ten of all time list.

Part Candide, part Bride of Frankenstein and strangely a touch of Barbie on acid, this is nonetheless wholly original.

Emma Stone's previous work with the director in the gloriously weird The Favorite hints at this performance, but I didn't know she had this in her. She won the Golden Globe and deserves the Oscar for this tour de force. I've always liked Mark Ruffalo, but sheesh, he is hysterical. Willem Defoe is always good and perfect here as the sad neo Dr Frankenstein.

It's not up to a guy to call this a feminist film, like I believe Barbie to be (which I loved), so I will pass on that. Let's just say Stone's character is definitely one who does whatever the hell she wants without the slightest nod to convention, and her arc is pure.

It might not be for everyone, with casual placement of various chimeras like a duck with a dog's head or a human with a goat's brain. There is also very matter of fact sexuality, reduced to pure biology. Which didn't bother me a bit.

Not much point in going through the plot, I'm going to have to read the book by the late Alasdair Gray. I don't want to spoil it.

The sets were magnificent, steampunk like Jeunet but unique. The music was perfectly freakish, there were sounds coming from instruments I could not identify. Jerskin Fendrix (that cannot be his real name) is someone to watch out for.

Do not miss this and go to an actual theater. We saw this at AMC and the parade of abject mediocrity in the numerous trailers before this triumph did not give a hint at what was to come.

This film is a journey through the absurdities of life that are conventionally accepted by society.

Bella is brought back to life by a scientist who swapped her brain with the one of a newborn, so she sees and experience the world without any social lens and she is indeed free from all the little things that cage us - she doesn't marry the guy her "father" wants her to marry, she's curious, seeks adventure and she looks at sex as a way to make herself feel happy.

I don't know if i read it correctly, but one of the themes that I see in this movie is the "belonging", as in "if I belong to someone I have to make sacrifices in order to be with that person, or I need to behave in a certain way to be worthy of this person", which has been a leitmotif of women's lives though out the centuries.

With Bella we don't see this kind of dynamic, because she acts only to make herself feel joy and happiness, so her happiness doesn't belong outside of anyone else and she has power over it.

Bella teaches us the importance of freedom at all costs, even when we are making the worst decision but it's OUR decision and we will face the consequences of it.

Love is often mistaken with possess, God loves Bella = he wants her to never leave her house.

The Lawyer loves her = he kidnaps her and brings her on a boat.

I personally love that she never feels sorry or desperate or in need to be saved, she is her own hero!

I really loved the fact that there are no good or bad characters, everyone has flaws and perks, even the protagonist herself.

Emma Stone is INCREDIBLE in this, she made me forgot she was acting, Defoe gives us a genius portrait of a mad genius, without being a caricature.

This has to be my favorite out of all the Lanthimos movies.