People! Please give Jake more time! He's running out of breath to squeeze his brilliant and fresh questions into the tiny amount of time he's given. I feel for him!!
Love Emma so much. She's my very favorite actress. One of the very most positive humans in the world. She makes you feel better. A doll in every way, lol.
I watched this with a truly brilliant 17-year-old boy from Shandong, China who has been staying with me for high school in America. I had to explain some of the film to Zihan but I was surprised at how close he came to understanding most of it. There was a lot of history of cinema, history of art, Feminist philosophy and Existential philosophy in it. Zihan even nailed the artwork as "Gothic/art nouveau/steampunk". The film also had an embarrassing amount of sex in it, but that was absolutely necessary for the story. Emma Stone went through all the stages of human development - babyhood (opening scene with Emma Stone acting infantile because she had just been created), happy childhood with an indulgent "father" who allowed her to explore in safety, teenage rebellion, twenties - "I want to learn and try everything in the world and danger and pain be damned" to maturity - a truly self-created person.. Simone de Beauvoir would be doing cartwheels out of sheer delight watching this film.
This movie was "Island of Dr. Moreau" meets "Flowers for Algernon" with a little bit of Pygmalion, directed by Terry Gilliam and art direction by Jules Verne. I loved it.
you still attaching emma to someone she hasn't been with in eight years is flat out disturbing and referring to what has been lauded as an unprecedented performance she is poised to win a second oscar from as "shit"? even more so.
