Bugonia

Bugonia and those forgotten Academy Award winners

I did like Poor Things from Yorgos Lanthimos. Did it deserve an award? No. Nominated films today do not deserve any awards. Zero. Half the time they're forgotten in 10 seconds. Think: Captain Phillips and Barkhad Abdi. Bugonia is heading for an Academy nomination and it's not terrible, not great either.

I had to fast forward most of the second half due to disgust of the main "antagonists". Don and Teddy are far too eccentric and full of nonsense that they need to be skipped, but I do like Emma Stone and she adds a lot to the film. Holy Christ, I forgot she was in Movie 43. That film was awful. I think Yorgos and Stone's collaboration is moving her career in a fun direction.

And we all saw the twist at the end coming.

As for the not-so-subtle Hollywood leftist psychobabble in Bugonia: it's there alright, but I'm taking a pass on calling it out since it kind of fits the narrative. Kind of. Like other reviewers said on this site, just because it's there doesn't immediately woke score the entire film. You'll know it when you see it if you watch Bugonia and it's worth a watch, just not an Academy award which it will for sure receive.