Okay Ugurlu

The story of human evolution - Well performed: Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe, he simply cannot act bad. - Super environment design, clever costumes. - Unique, atonal music that boosts the mood. The core story of the movie is the evolution of mankind (oops, sorry, humankind, that is the point, right?). Remember the "improvement" and "getting civilized" emphasis; physical evolution in the beginning, social later on. While doing that, the story puts women on the stage, as a critic to the past patriarchal history. God crates human, then she learns to walk, lives with instincts without knowing what is good and bad - referral Lord of the Flies. Then human leaves the house of the God, experiences the joy, the start of the awareness of the existence, in the gardens of Eden. The journey continues with development of critical mind, questioning and learning, remember the discussions on the ship, like we did in ancient Greek philosophy. After medieval age, (leaving the ship?), no more feudal relations, and immediately capitalism arrives. But hey, you need to sell your body in order to earn. This is an illusion, you can't select your partner here, no freedom, so you have to adopt and enjoy. Then, as a reaction, socialism arrives. This whole sex worker story was a complete criticism to the capitalist system in my opinion. Then, dear Bella (means pretty in Italian) continues to explore, which is nothing but following the historical steps of the humankind. She wants to come back to God, but then wonders her previous life. The major, ex-husband symbolizes fascism here. Now we are at 20th century. She defeats the ex, then Bella keeps evolving, I believe director Lanthimos (and the novelist) projects what would be the perfect system in the future. God is dead, and as a female Bella is in full control of her own life now. Is this anarchism -still with a feminist background? Is she the new God? Is this the new world citizenship without borders? Or is it just a futuristic utopia? I am not sure. The only conflict I have, Godwin has so many God referrals in the film so for sure he symbolizes the God, the creator. But he is a scientist also and he has a strong science emphasis during the whole movie. Science and God are two things which I can't merge as symbols unfortunately. I don't know who did categorize this movie as comedy/sci-fi, but there is no comedy in this film. I really liked it. I don't know if I have forced myself to find some meanings after symbols, but this is what I understood from the movie. Maybe I'd better to read the novel also. If anyone has a different opinion or anything to add, I would like to discuss, feel free to message. And thank you for bearing my English, which is obviously not my mother language 🙂