{"id":35583,"date":"2024-01-20T18:09:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T18:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heartandarttherapy.com\/poor-things-and-winter-swimming\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T09:33:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T09:33:03","slug":"poor-things-and-winter-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartandarttherapy.com\/en\/poor-things-and-winter-swimming\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Things and Winter Swimming."},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” max_width=”1600px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Bella\u2019s Baxter hair grow longer as her consciousness expands inwardly and outwardly, in all possible directions. Poor things<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, the last movie of Lanthimos<\/a><\/strong> provoking in a poetic way, condemning in a surreal manner, an eye, heart and even mouth opener. You certainly don\u2019t leave the cinema indifferent.<\/p>\n

At the end of the film, my friend\u2019s first words were \u201cLanthimos loves the Woman\u201d and I write Woman with capital W cause one of the many questions that Poor things is concerned to answer is \u201cHow to love a Woman?\u201d. The ownership instinct that Bella meets in most of the men she meets, the very one that led her to her suicide, jumping to the vast sea ending her life, (for a few hours at least). Her second life chance with her own baby\u2019s brain, she takes pleasure in each encounter, and she frees herself over and over again. In my sense, it feels a liberation that we strive to reach, a utopia, that it is far away given the rise of feminicide<\/strong><\/a>, and gender- based violence worldwide.<\/p>\n

But, how we see and reflect on a movie and any work of art is highly subjective. Some harsh realities that this \u201ccomedy\u201d brings forth, each one is digesting them differently, some will feel repelled, others inspired, or both at the same time.<\/p>\n

As an art therapist and seeker of the truth around the works of the psyche, what stayed as admiration on the story of Poor Things written by the Scottish writer Alasdair Gray<\/a>, and for further reflection was that the scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter did not only create a female Frankenstein, but when he was agonizing about her absence, because he just could and for his vanity, he created another one, Felicity.
\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/heartandarttherapy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Screenshot_20240120-152133_Chrome2.jpg” alt=”Poor Things by Lanthimos” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ _module_preset=”default” border_radii=”on|10px|10px|10px|10px” box_shadow_style=”preset1″ global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” max_width=”1600px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.23.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]Bella Baxter gains more credit on her advancement in her individuality and uniqueness, next to Felicity\u2019s mimetic limited behavior, like a baby robot on a woman\u2019s body that does all that she is instructed while her free will seems to be less than zero. Next to the adventurous spirit of Bella, even though both women were \u2018made by\u201d the same creator their essence is so dramatically different. And my question on what made the difference comes from the Dr. Godwin Baxter himself \u201cI gave love to Bella\u201d, he admits at one point.<\/p>\n

Same science applied to two bodies, two different outcomes, gives us a hint on our unique, subjective existence that is above science and technology and that is propelled to more heights when there is love received in our life beginning.<\/p>\n

What makes each one of us unique? There is no right answer and I think this question should be rephrased to \u201cHow do I feel and perceive my uniqueness when I am alone and when I share my life? Do I dare to challenge the morality of the society that surrounds me? Do we and can we follow our desires till the end? And what is the cost with each of our choices?<\/p>\n

This is what good art does, like a mirror that we dive into to see our own individual and collective truths on how we want to walk in life.<\/p>\n

I totally recommend Poor things<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, it feels like swimming in winter in cold sea. It shocks the whole value system and then it heals.<\/p>\n

On the meantime, I also dive into the real cold winter sea for its numerous physical and mental health benefits<\/strong><\/a>.
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