The Substance

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The Substance it's a movie with Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Gore Abrams, Hugo Diego Garcia Full cast. Directed by Coralie Fargeat. Original title The Substance Genre Horror.

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Balkan Castevet

The scenarios similar to the Overlook Hotel, and therefore to Kubrick's, show a distorted and nightmarish reality for the protagonist Elizabeth Sparkle, the star system and Hollywood are dominated by the male chauvinist mentality, with advancing age women are forgotten and are replaced and the same thing happens to Elizabeth. Time is vital for the protagonist, the film begins on her birthday, as she grows older, but time also takes on a concept of waiting that devours Elizabeth as after using the substance she has to wait a week to be able to take on the appearance of the other younger one, Sue. Therefore the obsession for beauty, for acclaim, Elizabeth fully lives the model of the star system managed by men mostly shown in a grotesque way , almost always framed with a wide angle to distort them, thus dilating their features by focusing on satire and caricatural moments. The lenses of the cameras of the television studio where Elizabeth/Sue works aim to obtain perpetually sexy shots, the director Fargeat accentuates the forms of Sue shown in the foreground and through editing and soundtrack obtains the effect of sensorial alteration, men dote on Sue while they now consider Elizabeth outdated. Elizabeth will begin to feel more and more inadequate, the changes in photography are interesting as when Elizabeth is shown the tones are only dark and dark with many shots from behind while when the protagonist uses Sue's body the colors are more pop and bright. Therefore the theme of the double, many shots recall the concept of division precisely because although in reality consciousness is always that of Elizabeth, the protagonist will gradually almost split the two personalities that will come into conflict with each other. The references to Shining, Psycho but also Re-animator and Society are not random nor are they merely homages. As written, the Overlook-style scenarios and the wide angle are used for Read all

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Described as an “explosive, feminist take on body horror.” Premise TBA.