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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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Thats not actually what its about! Stop getting your takes from puritanical zoomers on social media.
I saw it just a few days ago. The premise of the movie is that an infant's consciousness is placed in an adult women's body. At the time when she is taken to Portugal by the lawyer, she walks, talks, acts, and has the motor and social skills of a toddler.
It's wild that people defend the premise of the movie. It's literally just the opposite of the terrible anime trope where an adult woman's mind inhabits a child's body.
Like I get that the movie has a message it's supposedly trying to convey, but when you spend 142 minutes glamorizing how sexy it is to fuck Emma Stone (who is developmentally a child according to the plot) then it doesn't matter what the other message is
Editing to add more thoughts. I understand that the men in the film were antagonists and bad people for taking advantage of Emma Stone's character. My issue with the movie is that you should not glamorize the Bad Thing that you are trying to criticize. If you spend the entire runtime showing how fun and hot it is to fuck Emma Stone, people are going to walk away from the movie thinking "damn I wish that were me fucking her!", not "what a wonderful deconstruction of the 'born sexy yesterday' trope, I think I'll donate money to a women's shelter now"
Except people, like Othello, did walk away with the second interpretation. And i dont think you did understand that the men who take advantage of her are antagonists. Doesnt the film punish them for what they did? Othello has informed me that the film is pretty clear this is bad.
I think you are overly concerned with what horny men with no media literacy are going to think of the film.
The movie doesn’t explicitly punish a lot of the guys actually. I saw the point of the brothel scenes as the main character coming to terms with her position in life and taking charge of her own path after separating from mark ruffalo (I forgot the characters name). The thing about the Johns though is that it was clear that their “punishment” if you could call it that is the only way they could be vulnerable is with a prostitute.