Summary
Two men—one a powerful tech billionaire, the other a desperate beekeeper—find their lives colliding when a kidnapping spirals out of control. What begins as a battle of ideology turns into a violent, hallucinatory struggle for survival deep in the wilderness.
Director
Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers
Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast
- Jesse Plemons
- Emma Stone
- Willem Dafoe
- Aidan Delbis
- Stavros Halkias
Rotten Tomatoes
Critics Score: 91%
Metacritic
Score: 84
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So I just watched Bugonia.
I knew it was a risk. Poor Things was weird as hell and there is a lot that I liked about it. With Emma Stone again and Jesse Plemons? Alright, let’s give it a go. Of course it would be strange. Same director.
And… the risk didn’t pan out. That’s 118 minutes of my one single life on earth that I can never recover.
I’m not sure how to reframe this film in a way that highlights how creative or ingenious it is. I mean, Emma shaved her head for this film! It had to be worth that much.
Please help? I’d like to redeem it. But… I suppose some movies are just… bad.
I’d be curious to hear thoughts about what made this film great.
I agree completely with your first half, Poor Things was weird as hell, I liked parts of it, Emma Stone is great, Jesse Plemons is great, return of Yorgos…
But I was a HUGE fan of this film.
The story was a simple one. But this was Plemons vs Stone in the best way. We had a few side characters like the cousin and the police officer, but mostly it was each character trying to convince the other and the audience.
We know Plemons is a crazy conspiracy theorist. We know he can’t be right. But there are moments. Stone tries to be reasonable. She tries every imaginable strategy to convince Plemons he’s wrong.
And of course the twist. He was right. It forces you to reexamine everything Stone said during the film.