Mark Ruffalo has been in a lot of great projects – most recently his roles in the HBO series I Know This Much Is True – which, he won a Golden Globe for. Now, the talented actor will be joining Emma Stone in the upcoming movie Poor Things.
Poor Things is based on a book by Alasdair Gray and will be directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Lanthimos previously directed The Favourite. The project is described as a “hilarious political allegory” and a “send-up of Victorian literature”. As well as a “thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women”.
For the plot, I’m going to let Collider explain:
Bella is actually Victoria Blessington, who drowns herself to escape her abusive husband, Gen. Sir Aubrey Blessington, However, a surgeon resuscitates her by removing the brain from the fetus she was carrying and placing it into her skull, giving the revived Bella the mental faculties of a child. Eventually, she becomes engaged to a Glasgow physician named Archibald McCandless, who she then chloroforms only to run off with a shady lawyer who takes her on a whirlwind adventure all over Europe. As Bella’s brain matures, she starts to develop a social conscience, but all the progress she has made is threatened when she is recognized as Victoria by her lawful husband.
What do you think of the plot to Poor Things?
Source: Collider
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