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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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.