That is, the OLTREDONNA manifesto

Not poor creatures but poor, miserable things.

A woman has thrown herself off a bridge, in a "pregnant" state.

Picked up by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter, she undergoes a gray matter self-transplant: in fact, her brain is removed to be implanted with that of her fetus.

Bella is thus a charming young maiden with a fetal brain, a virgin to any sociocultural imprinting.

Thus begins her journey of learning under the close observation not only of her God but also of her assistant Max McCandless, who must take note of every progress, action, and reaction of the beautiful creature, who wanders undisturbed in the marvelous, opulent laboratory house filled with human corpses and animals more or less dissected to give life even to amusing chickendogs and delicious chickenpigs.

Her second "hand" parent, too, was in turn monstrously manipulated by her father, who intervened in her flesh and bone, giving her damage and obvious scars.

Although betrothed to the faithful assistant lover who sees her progressing at the rate of learning 25 thousand vocabulary words a day in addition to growing 2.5 cm of hair a week, Bella, curious about the world, decides to run away with the seducer Duncan Wedderburn, not without the consent, unsolicited moreover, of her "father" who will understand her curiosity.

The restless maiden, after discovering solitary pleasure, which " can give him happiness at any time," begins, riding the seducer's body, to discover that of two as well, devoting herself without limits to this exciting activity.

Reaching first Lisbon, then sailing the seas to Alexandria, she will meet a bizarre pair of friends, she a mature intellectual and he cynical and apparently disenchanted, discover reading and the fascination of culture, while the indefatigable seducer, will begin to become the banal homunculus, jealous obsessive and possessive in the face of a woman so free, uncontrollable and above all untamable. She will discover, in despair, poverty and human injustice, giving away all the possessions of the depowered seducer.

She will arrive in Paris where she will discover prostitution, and after this experience along with that of socialism she will return to London.

The idea of being able to start over as a woman, with this body already formed and seeing everything for the first time, trying to understand the nature of sexuality, power and money, or choices, with the ability to decide to live by one's own rules and not those of society, seems really fascinating, Emma Stone argues.

Enchanting photography, gothic black and white, childlike colors, magical settings, hilarious jokes to build a new creature, no longer a what; an other-woman out of any predetermined, organized, tried-and-true pattern inflicted on the feminine and in place forever.

If the new Eve is self-created through an interposed hand, the problem nevertheless remains, who will succeed in creating the new man anchored in the atavistic, timeless instinct of possession?

Lanthimos writes the new instruction manual on how to become a woman, but also the one on how to make a man fall in love and leave him glued to you ( for goodness sake)!

Lanthimos writes the manifesto of the feminine future inaccessible to that human so antiquated and yet still invisible to himself.

Lanthimos again rips open the veil of Greek aletheia to portray a human portrait that is truly little and miserable if it is not reborn by restoring integrity to its function, dignity and role.

Sic stantibus rebus there is a need to intervene on that "nature" so deformed as to require an artificial, surgical intervention on which to transplant a new possibility and why not, a new farce after the tragedy..

01-Sep-2023 by Beatrice