New Movie "Poor Things" Facing Backlash For "Kiddie Porn" Plot

Poor Things, which stars Emma Stone, is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and based on a 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. Many who saw it at the Venice Film Festival hailed Stone's performance as a sexual deviant; others were disturbed by its unsettling narrative that borders on pedophilia.

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In the movie, a woman named Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) dies and is brought back to life by scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. How, you might ask? Dr. Baxter reanimates Bella's corpse by transplanting her baby's brain into her skull. She becomes childlike again, learns to navigate life as she's reborn...and then gains an unsatiable appetite for sex. Based on the articles of those who have seen it, this is essentially what the plot is – a woman with the brain of an infant becomes a sex addict.

"The movie features graphic and sometimes violent sex involving Stone’s character, Bella, as she declared her independence from a lackluster relationship by becoming a prostitute in Paris," Variety writes. I'm unsure how people could sit through this film and accept the fact that Bella is fundamentally a baby despite being in an undead woman's body.

@KeenanPeachy on X gets it. "Here is the movie plot: a pregnant Emma Stone tries to kill herself and is saved by a modern day Dr Frankenstein. He saves her by transplanting the brain of her unborn baby into her skull. With the body of an adult and the brain of a literal newborn, she does what all newborns do: she becomes a nymphomaniac and prostitute, of course. There are graphic sex scenes between Stone - playing a baby who can barely talk or walk - and (ew) Mark Ruffalo, the commie Disney star," she tweeted.

She continued, "I forget: can newborns consent to sex? If they’re smoking hot babes they can! The movie is marketed as a comedy. How dare you think this sounds like a thinly veiled pedo porn! You philistine—this is high art!"

You can label anything foul, evil, or debaucherous as "art" these days and get away with it, at least in Hollywood.

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