Single Sentence Movie Review: The Substance (2024).
The Substance has a necessary message about the attitude regarding women in popular culture, but I’m afraid that my ultimate reaction to the movie was that the message was already clear from the start and it just didn’t deepen, possibly due to the cartoonish characterizations that avoided psychology rather than investigate the other incentives that make this issue so fucking hard to shake.
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