13.3.24
First 40 minutes is electric, so good I had to pause for the evening and restart the film after dinner
Bella speaks and acts totally without inhibition
She can understand but doesn’t. Not so much a comment on neurodiversity but moreso a commentary on the patriarchal shackles of women, how the instinctive female has to adapt herself to the social mores of pregnancy, marriage and the disgusts of ‘polite society’
So much more than a female version of Feankestein’s monster, although obviously telegraphed through Willem Defoe’s appearance and performance
A gorgeous, fantastic world of boundless energy and creative spirit,