This is the reason why I dropped english , an analysis is not a thesis , pure emotion one sided and is disgraceful to the Gerae , Women of this curse who have been wronged / maimed by GODS . Please if you are experiencing this as a person looking for spiritual info on having this curse . start with first the story of MEDUSA , GODDESS OF ATHENA , WARRIOR .HAG , THEN research the 3 , HERA GIFT OF KNOWING , ASMODUS , BEZLEBUB ETC , VERY JUICY MOVIE BE SURE TO BRING YOUR VIBRATORS , YUM DISH , SUPER L

Boys can be pretty, but men can't. The aging contrast is greater in appearance. Men are never beautiful and everyone becomes weak and goes out of warranty.

i am really glad to see this opinion from you. I really disliked the substance and the call to ridicule of different bodies left me furious. My sister on the other hand, really loved it saying "for how insecure i am, it's just what i needed, to be made fun of"

for all those youg people who shame old women, just wait until you get old. see how you like it then.

I found it interesting that the 90s grunge movement, where torn denim jeans got popular, was hijacked by high end fashion that sold pre-torn jeans. The reason torn jeans was part of grunge culture looks was because it’s anti-establishment values rejected buying new clothes. You wore your jeans to threads rather than pay for new ones, and you didn’t care how it looked. But then grunge music and the fashion of listeners got popular and fashion designer capitalized.

You and your friend hannah have a good podcast this was an entertaining episode

The Little Women of Europe. They rattle their cage loudly, but like a lab animal, they will never maneuver the lock, door or windows for escape.

huh...i liked it...wonder what it says abt me ps. in my defence, hvnt seen talented Mr ripley yet

Baby Jane is an absolute gem. Watch the TV show "Feud" and it goes into detail about what happened behind the scenes of shooting.

Great! I really like this review. I watched The Substance, and I was truly impressed. I wanted to discuss it and hear more about the movie. Thank you!

Sorry I didn't even spent money in watching it cause in the end of the day, Barbie is still a faked up toy to give a kid.

I'd argue, that the fear of aging is the fear of becoming irrelevant over something that is entirely out of your control. Therefore the Anti Aging "Movement" is a desperate attempt to gain said control, rather than accepting the inevitable. What's also interesting to know here is, that Women hold status in form of their appearance; their beauty and youth in particular. Men on the other hand hold status in a rather gain-based form, like e.g. Money or other objects of wealth. This is why an old man isn't as scary as an homeless (broke) man.

Thanks you for talking about the sadness you felt for other ederly women, at the sight of the horror shot of the sagging breast. I litteraly had the same experience, thinking about my mother who is almost 60, is such a wonderful clever and funny woman, and is afraid of her sagging boobs since her mid 30s, cracking jokes that she would do botox or plastic surgery if she had the means. As Elisabeth has no past or story, I saw my mom on screen, and felt every laugh against her fate as an attack.

I think its "funny" that Ki-woo only thinks he can earn the money to buy the house after he recieved a stone to the head 2 times and brain damage from it. Ironic isnt it?

To me the film did an incredible job of offering the female perspective of aging and body dysmorphia. The setting is Hollywood which is a major perpetrator or anti aging propoganda and the entire film felt like it was from the perspective of a woman so deeply entrenched in that world. It felt like everything was a metaphor for what was going on in her mind. When it showed her as an old woman, it was shown to the audience from her perspective; her body terrified her. That's the reality women deal with and i don't think there's anything wrong portraying that because it's what we go through due to societal pressure. This film showed us our illness and opened up conversation on aging that has been dormant. This film had a genuine shock value that I haven't seen films attempt for a long time, I loved it

I love theatrics and camp lol loveeee it

Nothing for me will ever beat Teresa versus Dina and even better when lunatic ghost whisper is present. Maybe the party planner and Ms forthcoming album

I need to watch that last episode never watched slc

I gotta say, at some point when Elizabeth transforms into a Gollum lookalike and her leg locks, I wondered if the film risked being ableist. But there was nothing to indicate an experience of disability (e.g. medical supplies, aids, medication, or even a hospital bed - the bodies were on the floor.) I also thought about the nudity, and the 'monster' saggy breasts a lot while watching. To me, they were neutral. I think we've been so conditioned to see nudity and breasts in a sexual way or a neurotic mummy way... When it's literally a chest. I love how ridiculously p0rn0graphic Sue's breasts look at first and I'm pretty sure they're prosthetics? I think the way the monster breasts are perceived says more about the audience than it does about the film. Using the word saggy for instance. Is it saggy or is it a breast? I actually liked the both bold and underwhelming presence of the breasts, especially when one is randomly spawned at the end. My first basic analysis on first watch was that the horror does not lie in women ageing. The film is way too self-aware for that. It lies in the sheer power of self hatred and how easily it resurfaces and how it was always there when Elizabeth built her empire. When Sue abuses Elizabeth, it's like dissociation and self-|-|arm... Hollywood and fame are just the perfect backdrop (and tbh at first I was going to avoid this film because it was framed as a critique of beauty standards and I didn't want to watch another film about a beautiful woman losing her mind... But I watched Fargeat's short film 'Reality+` and was instantly sold on her style, so I'm biased. The Substance seems to be about time, death, legacy, and deeper human condition themes. In a way it's really deep and really generic but it's not trite. Can't explain. It's almost like it's allowing women on screen to ponder about mortality and the self while having a very feminine experience and while also not being pigeon-holed to hag / crone / maiden tropes. Again, that's why I think the film is self-aware because there are literal visual representations of this... And that is also why I liked the nudity in Matrix Elizabeth's both human and monster forms (and later monstero.) As if the director knew women's nudity was often about arousal or shame in Hollywood. That being said, if I'm going by your critique, she didn't consider the lack of ageing bodies, women specifically, in Hollywood and is also guilty of using a seemingly ageing body and older prosthetics on a youthful actress. As a weird aside, I also the French food scene, as French food is known as fine dining but is in fact pretty gross peasant food and it felt like an in joke from a French director (I'm saying this as a French viewer.) It was my least favourite scene as a vegan though and a misophone xD I did love how over stylised the film is. The set design, the sounds design... That yellow coat... The appartement..! Wow! love how over stylised the film is. The set design, the sounds design... That yellow coat... The appartement..! Wow!

Well... this video didn't aged well. xD

If anyone felt so inclined, I would really love to know what movies were shown in this video but not named. I recognised some but would love the list. No probs if not, I’ll come back and figure it out. Thanks if anyone wants to do this. Absolutely love all the films that had been named. I agree it probably was Sunset Boulevard that started this genre. That’s my favourite movie. And I’m glad to say, The Substance is also a new favourite. Have already watched it twice within three days 🙏 I appreciated the review. Whether or not I agree. Thank you 🙏

great video ! thank you

To me, it reflects a lot on the "modernism" movement, there are a bunch of artist doing an art that criticis the society that they are part of, to be hypocritical I mean, i see it a lot during the studies of the 19 century roots of modernism and the following movement, of there are also a lot of artists that makes theyre art for the sake of it, but its just became so apreciated by the public to live the critiques about it self that fings lost sense, buston cares about money and wants to make it while stil wanting to look goth, punk and unique, so he turns into a hypocritical

The fly and the substance are very different movies, in my opinion the whole point why we are not introduced Elizabeth in depth is to depict the whole shallowness of Hollywood and the objectification of women, especially in the entertainment industry - nobody cares about who you are, where you come from, about your life values, nobody cares about the substance within, only thing that matters is the outside substance YOUR BODY, how you look, you have no other value as a woman only thing that matters is how you look like. Not introducing Elizabeth in depth is intentional, its how society is shallow, pressures women to look a certain way, only substance women have is how women look like. The Substance is a brilliant move in the age of Instagram, Tiktok, Onlyfans, Tinder, Buble etc - where looks matter not your substance within, inner beauty does not matter only outer

The French have been perennially locked in overt misogyny and racism because idiotic and outdated fashion of the 50s and 60s about them have stuck due to a few quirks in the cinema of Truffaut which American directors decided were revolutionary so turned a blind eye to all its offensive politics. I've always associated their narratives with flippant and silly bougie fantasy coupled with shameless self indulgence.

I've seen both The Talented Mr Ripley and Saltburn, in that order, and yes the stories are very similar but Saltburn did it better. Saltburn is more surprising because it frames it much more as a gay romance up until Felix finds out about Oliver going down on his sister, he seems jealous. And also you expect Oliver to get more and more obsessed perhaps, but not that he has planned everything, even the bicycle incident, from the start. It is true that The Talented Mr Ripley's very end is even more surprising, when he kills Peter! But if I had to rewatch one of the two and never watch the other again, I would choose Saltburn, simply because of how many details were put into it to foreshadow and mirror everything, and also because of the differences between North/South, poor/rich specifically in the UK, which, to anyone who has lived in the UK (I have), makes you want to side with Oliver and think he is a good guy. Saltburn is the poetry to The Talented Mr Ripley's prose. But also I would dissuade anyone from watching the trailer. I went in blind and started thinking "oh this is Call Me By Your Name basically" and that's why I ended up loving it.

Apologies for trying to leave a link in the comment, I totally forgot about the no-links policy. I wanted to link this article called "Camp, Kitsch & Cheese" on the HiLoBrow website. Not affiliated with the site in any way, it's just an original way of thinking about the concept of camp, so I thought it might be interesting. Anyway, this is a truly excellent video and it totally made me go back and rewatch the movie. Thanks!

The lovability of the CEO's in the movie always felt supremely off for me, even when I liked it. This video has successfully unlocked that "You may not have noticed it but your brain does" door and now the movie depresses the hell out of me thank u 4 the psychic damage

one thing about this movie as well as rich people is that with all that money you would think they would be compassionate to less fortunate but they are not similarly the kims who achieve an illusion of status, power and money forget compassion and instead is cruel to the former housekeeper and her husband.

I think there might be a distinction to be made of Zemeckis less of a liberal as in 'progressive' and more of a liberal as in 'neo-liberal', which ties in nicely with the changes for profit from book to film. It also feels appropriate in regards to his fixation with technological novelties in filmmaking as opposed to human/thematic elements - the forced necessity of unceasing capitalistic growth that will supposedly encourage innovation through competition.

Can we finally stop repeating "the city is a character"

I would also love for people to recgnize the director love for matter rather than the feminist/female gaze discourse. The movie focus on matter and texture a lot. The body is compared to stone on the ground or food we eat, putting it back to its reality, we are matter of flesh and blood destined to rot and die. Death is floating all over this movie, from the secret room in the bathroom, like a coffin or a tomb, the body laying on the ground, the aging body. I'll go far to say that suicide and depression are also two main themes in the movie. The ending is a celebration of matter, a celebration of all this flesh and blood composing a human body, at the end she rest in peace becoming one with the matter of the stone, the air, the stars. I really think matter, material is the center of this movie. Great analysis on your part about aging and the treatment of old woman.

He wasn't shot in the butt, rather the butt-awks.

Female ageing porno and prisoner drama. This movie is for and about the male psyche and its sexual neurosis, as are the lives of women and girls who reject the normal stages of life are also lives trapped in the male mind.

29:39 - i think the point of showing aging body as a jump scare is that Elisabeth is doing that to herself. It's not the aging that makes her scary because like you said Demi Moore is very attractive, but her attempts to de-age is what making things worse. Great video!

any critic is useless in this day and age, and these idiots constantly trying to push their agenda will only make them irrelevant faster

great video, thank you 💕

I feel the laughter response on Elizabeth's body might b based on the recognition that she is just a person. we laugh off being scared of smth not scary. The horror of The Substance being a fear (of aging) rather than necessarily aging ulitmately tells us 2b afraid of our narcisism & recklessness. i think its interesting that age suggests different types of horror in social attitudes & media. oldness is a body horror. youth is a psychological horror. I feel that both meet here in a hagsploitation. these r some cheesy personal thoughts but I do envy age. I guess from having disabilities, i fear death. the body just sometimes hurts itself or cant handle life. existing is already a body horror @ times. ultimately a body horror is a fear of losing control. my response 2 a fear of aging is confusion but I recognise most ppl do have a similar fear of losing control of the body. & ig sometimes the fear of the body is just a fear of being human. & were just human. A human body is usually always not scary..