"Poor Things" Is Quite A Switch, From.......Anything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              When David and I watched "Poor Things" several Wednesdays ago, we did not know what to expect.  For myself, I can say my reaction was identical to last year's viewing of "Everything, Everywhere All At Once."  At the end of the film we realized we had loved it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                So it went with "Poor Things." Let me start by saying I was as surprised as anyone when Emma Stone won the Oscar.  No, I had not seen the film at that point, but I had seen enough of Emma Stone to know I don't like her.  She is too quirky for the parts she has done in the past, and her award for "La La Land" was undeserved, because her dancing was so insecure, I could tell she was wondering throughout if she was getting each step right.

                                  That was then, this is now.  With "Poor Things" I can understand how Emma Stone won her second Oscar.  She finally has a role that fits her quirkiness, so much so I cannot imagine anyone other than she playing the role of Bella Baxter.

                                    I really do not want to spoil the story for viewers, so let me say that it has a "Frankenstein" component, which Stone masters superbly, aided and abetted by her creator played brilliantly by the brilliant Willem Dafoe.  She then runs off with a scoundrel, played by Mark Ruffalo, who introduces her to the world.

                                    But the world of "Poor Things, " created by Holly Waddington's costumes and Shona Heath's and James Price's production design makes the world a Technicolor unreality, as Bella emerges from a child, to, frankly, a nymphomaniac.  The costumes and sets of this film outdo anything I have seen in years, and how director Yorgos Lanthimos brings together elements that could result in a contrived story, but do not is remarkable.  The result is a film so arrestingly visual, with performances to match that the viewer can hardly keep one's eye from the screen.

                                      What an ironic title is "Poor Things," darlings.  For it turns out to be an abundance of riches.

                                           Quirky?  Yes, but don't miss it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!