The Substance (2024)

The Substance (2024)

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In Coralie Fargeat's new feminist terror movie The Substance, damaging popular charm standards are the actual beasts. They (female objectification, the disposal of "the old," the expansion of a sector built on body system alteration) supply a monster of a cycle that leads Demi Moore's fading TV personality character Elisabeth Glimmer to seek out a bootleg market therapy phoned The Substance that vows to make her more beautiful. And in doing so, she goes through a creature-feature-like change herself.

The Substance is a grotesque procedure-- one including syringes, liquids, as well as Elisabeth's back opening to childbirth a much younger dual participated in through Margaret Qualley. Elisabeth and also her version, known as Sue, can not be conscious simultaneously, so they each stay (blog post) for a full week just before switching areas, along with Sue detracting liquid from a gaping hole in Elisbeth's spine to suffer herself. When Sue abuses The Substance, Elisabeth starts to grow older-- starting with one unnerving, tacky hands prior to spreading out into creaky, virtually worthless arm or legs; and when Elisabeth resist through binge-eating, File suit malfunctions so much so that she may draw poultry airfoils away from her navel.

In doing so, the movie suggest the fastidiously unsightly lengths some are going to visit be revered as excellent. It is actually executed to a suspenseful, life-like degree that creates a body terror film for the grows older.