Awake not Woke!

Wasted Potential

The black friend is a token DEI hire. All the male characters are useless and just there to be killed. I actually don't recall a single female character dying or even really being hurt. Jester character is the highlight and has some creepy moments. The acting is not very good with a couple of average but mostly bat actors. Some awkward dialog and long conversations between characters hurt the pacing. Some jarring editing between scenes as well. Other than the F-bombs its all very PG-13. The blood is minimal with no real gore and the kills are pretty tame. The older sister is a nasty miserable generally unlikable character.

Within 3 min teen male character states he is a lover of boys. DEI heavy casting in the U.K. with an 83 percent white population. White girl is of course instantly attracted to the black kid who naturally the gay white male also wants. The straight white male is a complete p.o.s. who tries to assault a teenage girl and is killed. This is all within the first 20 minutes. By this time it's obvious this is going to be an agenda driven woke fest so that was it for me.

The panna cotta is the message

The Platform is a Spanish film with a straightforward dystopian premise that conceals surprising layers of complexity. I watched the dubbed version, which worked well. The movie isn’t overtly "woke" but is brutally violent and disturbing. It won’t be to everyone’s taste—obviously. The concept is simple yet effective: prisoners on each platform level can only eat the leftovers passed down from those above them. By the time the food slab reaches the lower levels, nothing edible is left, symbolizing unchecked greed within society. Obviously. Is this prison a metaphor for capitalism or socialism? Although most IMDb reviewers seem convinced it critiques capitalism, the setting reflects a welfare system more than a capitalist one. No one in the prison works; food is provided by the "state". This is socialism, obviously. The film raises the question of whether it’s possible to change such a system to allocate resources more equitably. Here, it starts to feel like the director might believe socialism could work if only people made sacrifices for the common good, while at the same time the events in the film serve as an admission that this is a naive hope. Capitalism, by contrast, allows individuals to act in their own interest while benefiting others. Obviously. In the IMDb reviews, user "TheKing87" provides an excellent analysis of the film's symbolism and rules. Honestly, it bumped my rating from a 4 to a 5/5. Here is a link to this insightful review: https://m.imdb.com/review/rw5620229/?ref_=tturv_perm_7 Perhaps the film’s true message is simply, “Think of the children.” After all, the brutalities of our dog-eat-dog world impact them too. It’s an intense movie with much food for thought, but viewer discretion is advised. Obviously.

Weird Science

Whereas in "Weird Science" a pair of teen boys create a hot older woman (Kelly LeBrock) to be their playmate, in "Poor Things" an old mad scientist creates a hot young frankenbarbie (Emma Stone), and sets her up with his sappy assistant. Hilarity ensues. /s Although Emma is not very young here, 33 years old, her character has the mind of a child, literally. Sex with this woman-child is pedophilia with extra steps. She is surrounded by exploitative men. Even the one "good" guy in her life takes advantage of her, though ends up a spineless simp. So, it's not looking good on the woke front, and then the movie throws in an honorable aristocratic dapper (gay?) black man, out of place in Victorian times. Also, the film sends the message that women are free to be literal whores, because some simp will still marry them after they decide to settle down. And pegging my woke meter is interracial lesbian sex where one is mentally underaged. Compounding the problem is the cinematography, which makes the viewer feel like a voyeur who is trying to get off by spying on all this perversion. It is pedo-ception. On the brighter side, the movie is set in a Dystopian steampunk timeline. Still, I felt they should have infused steampunk tech in many of the everyday items, not just the transport. To sum it up, this quirky movie posits the question: "would you commit statutory rape on a retarded Emma Stone who has the mental capacity of a child?" It throws in so much woke (pedophilia, white man bad, DEI, lesbianism) that it would be difficult for readers of this site to enjoy.