This article containsPoor Thingsspoilers.
Somehow Bellas epiphany is both macabrely funny and unexpectedly sweet.
In his warped patriarchal view, removing Bellas clitoris would exert some kind of barbaric control over her body.
Now it is his body that rests beneathherknife.
You know where this is going.
Now Bella is the master of her own destiny and her own household.
She is even having gin in the afternoon while watching her kid sister play with the family pet!
Poor Things is the title and thats what its about.
Its almost as if the movie asks audiences to pity these weird, hopeless creatures occupying the film.
You usually dont get that kind of canvas on [one character].
Even she cant help trying to be [the master].
Theres something in humans that have this thing.
Hence the bitter irony of the otherwise delightful ending.
Look closely during the happy hour denouement.
Their faces are captured in tight close-up while the world around them is distorted.
But are they really that happy or just reflections of Bellas newfound thirtysomething sense of contentedness?
The bluntness of the juxtaposition punctuates the visual gag with a merciless exclamation point.
This is not to say the General didnt deserve his fate.
But now he is her literal plaything, left outside to much grass right next to the dog-chicken.
Dont judge too harshly though.
After all, shes only human.
Poor Things is now in theaters in the U.S. and UK.
