we’ve always farmed filth. simple as

guy who pretends to not know anything about Japan so people don’t accuse him of being a weeb

Here’s how Juche can win

imo the guy having exhibitionist sex in front of his kids is wrong. The other johns are probably alright, although it is very skeevy when the madame is explaining how some clients enjoy the fact that the women don’t want to fuck them

Agreed that depicting something is not the same as glamorizing it. I think a similar piece of media that does a good job of this is Lolita. Even though the story is told from Humbert’s biased point of view, it’s clear to the reader/viewer that what he’s doing is gross because his attraction to a child is only glamorous to him.

Contrast this with Poor Things, where we spend what feels like half the movie focused on Emma Stone’s face in ecstasy as she cums, or lingering on shots of her naked having incredible sex or basking in a post-coital glow in scenic settings. I think you’re right about a few sex scenes being unsexy (especially in the brothel… but even then, there are scenes like when she tells the priest he “has a gift” for fucking so good and her relationship with her fellow prostitute) but for the most part the sex scenes are really played up to be exciting.

And i dont think you did understand that the men who take advantage of her are antagonists. Doesnt the film punish them for what they did?

The lawyer is repeatedly punished and the military husband gets shot and turned into a goat, but the rest of the men either got to carry on with their lives with no punishment (her controlling father figure, all the johns that visit the brothel) or are actually rewarded for it (the young surgeon who Gets the Girl despite that he wanted to marry her when he knew she was a mental infant).

Again, my criticism of the movie isn’t this theme, it’s the glamorous portrayal of the thing the movie is supposedly criticizing. If you’re ironically portraying a girl being taken advantage of as sexy, then it’s still portraying a girl being taken advantage of as sexy. I really don’t think the man who directed it was thinking about how he was skewering men’s control over women when he was choosing the perfect angle to film Emma Stone fucking cowgirl style

I saw it just a few days ago. The premise of the movie is that an infant’s consciousness is placed in an adult women’s body. At the time when she is taken to Portugal by the lawyer, she walks, talks, acts, and has the motor and social skills of a toddler.

It’s wild that people defend the premise of the movie. It’s literally just the opposite of the terrible anime trope where an adult woman’s mind inhabits a child’s body.

Like I get that the movie has a message it’s supposedly trying to convey, but when you spend 142 minutes glamorizing how sexy it is to fuck Emma Stone (who is developmentally a child according to the plot) then it doesn’t matter what the other message is

Editing to add more thoughts. I understand that the men in the film were antagonists and bad people for taking advantage of Emma Stone’s character. My issue with the movie is that you should not glamorize the Bad Thing that you are trying to criticize. If you spend the entire runtime showing how fun and hot it is to fuck Emma Stone, people are going to walk away from the movie thinking “damn I wish that were me fucking her!”, not “what a wonderful deconstruction of the ‘born sexy yesterday’ trope, I think I’ll donate money to a women’s shelter now”

The movie about having sex with a mental toddler?

cheers I’ll drink to that

me talking about the Lathe of Heaven around my friends

I should probably not keep drafts of my writing in Google Docs, huh?

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has had this thought. Sometimes I drink one beer and I start thinking “maybe the meaning of life is enjoying some nice beers and chilling.” That’s a very achievable goal which is the allure

We’re dangerously close to Kerry-posting with this thread

tired: schools full of teachers

wired: schools full of prison guards

beautiful

cheers I’ll drink to that

can someone hit me with the volcel police copypasta and/or funny police car image? I need to pass it on

I can’t stand this slander against DUNC

outdoor bus vs indoor bus debate