故事一开头也非常符合这本书插图的暗黑美学,God和Bella还有他们院子里奇怪的兔子都不能称之为人或动物,而是things。但是随着Bella接触更多外界的人,看到了这个表面光鲜的世界的背面,我们不得不开始思考poor things究竟是Bella还是被称之为“人”的人。就像最前面几页的赞美里所写的,这本书其实是一本政治小说,很有...
The world is a big stage, All the men and women poor things.下面信件内容全为斜体印刷,区别于前面小说以及后面考据索引的“正体”,为方便阅读此处使用正体,后续索引部分的信件内容则保留斜体; ()内容为原文自带,个人评注部分虽然在翻译时候是直接加批注了事,但考虑到夹翻夹注释夹评论可能影响阅读感,所以还是统...
Adapted from Alasdair Gray's novel of the same name, Poor Things is essentially a reimagining of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein, wherein the resurrected corpse is that of a woman (Stone) who died by suicide, her body a perfect vessel for the curiosity of mad scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (...
Review ofPoor Things Poor Things(2023) 8/10 Poor Things: Weirdly Wonderful (But Maybe Not for Everyone) 3 March 2024 "Poor Things" is a film that definitely lives up to its title. Adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray, it's a bizarre blend of science fiction, dark comedy, and femi...
Alasdair Gray (novel) Powered by JustWatch SHOWTIMES The creation of a mad scientist learns what it means to be a woman in Poor Things. Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) is a mad scientist who hires his student Max McCandless (Ramy Youssef) to observe the progress of his “daughter...
Those following Lanthimos’ career will see his fingerprints all over this: the palette pops brighter and the visual ticks ring louder than, say, The Lobster or Killing of a Sacred Deer, but there is a wryness and weirdness here as well as a willingness to let things go slowly that is ...
Review: Poor Things Every now and again, I have a spirited debate in the office with a work colleague about Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 release,The Lobster. It’s the tale of a man (Colin Farrell) who must find love in 45 days to else he’ll be turned into the animal of his choosing...
Acclaimed auteur Yorgos Lanthimos and hisOscar-winning muse, Emma Stone, follow upThe Favouritewith a libertine sexual odyssey that's astonishingly imaginative.Poor Things, adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray, has a Dr. Frankenstein-esque scientist (Willem Dafoe) creating a young woman as a ...
The film is a candy-colored, steampunk inflected adaptation of the 1992 novel of the same name — itself a reinterpretation of “Frankenstein” — and invites audiences to grow up alongside its “monster,” Bella Baxter, played by the extraordinary Emma Stone. As an unabashedly bizarre and ...
Yorgos Lanthimos' hilarious and raunchy "Poor Things" stars Emma Stone as a woman brought back from the dead.