At the end of the film, my friend’s first words were “Lanthimos loves the Woman” and I write Woman with capital W cause one of the many questions that Poor things is concerned to answer is “How to love a Woman?”. 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’s 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, and gender- based violence worldwide.

But, how we see and reflect on a movie and any work of art is highly subjective. Some harsh realities that this “comedy” brings forth, each one is digesting them differently, some will feel repelled, others inspired, or both at the same time.

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, 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.