Gagged and Bound

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Especially if the character has an annoying voice or worse: a Dreadful Musician with horrendous vocal chords. The way she learns to move through the world with such freedom is inspiring, but would she be allowed the same freedoms if she wasn’t wealthy and running in upper-class circles? She had bought the expensive Remesier brandy through a dealer and poured it into a secure decanter to celebrate with it later, just her and Emilee. Lanthimos made a choice to do the sex thing, and that’s his right as director – and Stone’s as a producer. The reception was supposed to be a private affair but had so many guests that it was not hard for strangers like myself to mingle in.

As I drove home I experienced such a rush of euphoria that I decided the experience just had to be relived. In Dot in Space, Dot is tied up and silenced by bubble-shaped aliens under the influence of Fantastic Racism, when she crash-lands on their planet. But Poor Things struck me as self-congratulatory and fake deep, obsessed with its own radical approach to a female coming-of-age story.All of these debates and lenses certainly fall under the umbrella of social politics, but these are questions I was left with after watching the film, not answers that I found tied in neat little bows. In "Golden Book Video Killers XVI", Grumpy and Daffy were covering the Golden Book Video versions of The Bible stories, Noah's Ark, David and Goliath, and Jonah.

In the running for a fantastic new job within the police, she is secretly told that her closest rival, one of the Met’s most respected officers, is in the pay of a family of organised criminals. But how can it be that, in 2024, we are supposed to believe that it’s shocking and surprising for a woman to enjoy sex? During "Team-Up" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Stern), the captured turtles are each tied to a chair. Like Cecelia, Rose Buxton had her valuable jewels hidden away at the bottom of a vanity drawer full of lingerie. Emilee grins as the jewels are located and added to the growing loot being added to the satin pillowcase she is holding, her mind going to the ladies in the Parlour downstairs, totally oblivious as to the robbing of their valuables that is occurring above their high held heads.To paraphrase Rachel Sennott’s character in Shiva Baby, feminism is a lens to see the world through. And Inspector Caro Lyalt has to decide what to do with information from a whistle-blower that could ruin a colleague's career - or her own. It was nearly two hours before I spied the fetchingly pretty pair walking out across that parking lot, smoking cigarettes like petite geysers. The thief smiled, picturing Emilee and herself as a pair of vultures, eagerly waiting to pick through the carcasses that were the bodies of the sleeping rich men strewn about the room.

Since I was still getting my feet wet, I was content with just stalking and seeing if it led to something.

Yes, Bella has loads of sex and – freed by her baby brain of the patriarchal trappings that plague so many of us – manages to not ascribe ideas of moral good or bad to “furious jumping”. While Lisbon is depicted for its beauty, Alexandria is presented as a cesspit of poverty, a conduit through which Bella can muse on the “poor things” of Egypt and make vain attempts to improve their lives.

At the other end of the legal spectrum, a family of South London villains gags and suffocates those who try to expose their secrets. As the last shiny gown is dropped from the window sill, they all turn back to face the thief, only to discover she was already at the door, leaving the room with the pillowcase containing all of their nicked jewellery. What would it look like to accept some of Bella’s more unconventional behaviours in all people, or does she simply represent the acceptable face of difference? The thief, looking back down, spots the thin gold chain and cross the maid was wearing under her frock.Coming to the white ruffled satin blouse she sees there is a black onyx pin holding the high-necked satin bow in place. Turning back, the thief opens the last, and by far, largest velvet case, a royally dazzling display of large emeralds and diamond set jewellery almost blinds the thief’s eyes. This film can’t be everything for everyone, nor can it sum up every part of what it means to grow into a woman. With her fresh mind, literal interpretation of events and gorgeous looks, she’s just so bewitchingly bold and artlessly instinctual and unspoilt that she drives men mad with lust and love and longing.