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For this Friday Movie Night, since the Oscars are coming up soon, we’re doing a double feature of Best Picture nominees. First up is The Zone of Interest (2023), a family drama about SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss’s efforts to build his dream house for his family in a fabulous new property he acquired right next door to Auschwitz. The camp’s horrors are not directly shown, but they nevertheless keep impinging on his attempts to live an idyllic, peaceful life with his family. Banality of Evil: The Movie. We already watched director Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013) on Hextube, and it was a hit, so let’s give another one of his films a shot.

After that is Poor Things (2023), a magical-realist/sci-fi/black comedy/romance/feminist drama/weird thing from Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster [2015], The Favourite [2018]). Emma Stone stars as a corpse brought back to life with the mind with a child by a Frankenstein-esque scientist (Willem Dafoe), and she steadily takes back control of her life and sexuality from the shitty men who manipulate her. Pretty much everyone lists this as one of the best films of the year, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• The Zone of Interest: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-zone-of-interest/
• Poor Things: https://letterboxd.com/film/poor-things-2023/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• The Zone of Interest: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1067040
• Poor Things: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/749562

CWs for The Zone of Interest:

• Nazis.
• Holocaust. Although the horrors of the camp are not directly depicted, disturbing sounds are often audibe.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Torture (albeit offscreen.)
• Cheating.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Vomiting.
• Screaming.
• Antisemitism.
• Hate speech.
• “Sexual content”. Seems pretty tame from what I can see, though.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Poor Things:

• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Sexual assault. A woman who does not understand sex is touched by a man in a lascivious manner. However, she does not express any fear or refusal, and initiates sex later. Sexual liberation is one of the film’s main themes.
• Pedophilia, following on from the above, since the main character has just been born, albeit in an adult body.
• Sexualization of minor, in the sense that the main character has been reborn in an adult body.
• Necrophilia, since the main character is a revived corpse.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Abusive parents.
• Abused person forgives their abuser.
• Stalking.
• Domestic violence.
• Abused becomes the abuser.
• Gaslighting.
• Child abuse.
• Drug use.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Deaths of animals.
• Animal abuse.
• Body horror.
• Someone is drugged.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Chloroform rag.
• Prostitution.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Disfigurement.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Decapitation.
• Choking.
• Someone is lit on fire.
• Amputation.
• Unconsciousness.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Eye mutilation.
• Stabbing.
• Blood and gore.
• Death of child.
• R-slur.
• Disabled character played by able-bodied actor.
• Kidnapping.
• Death of parent.
• Cheating.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Razors.
• Someone wets themselves.
• Vomiting.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Farting.
• Mental hospital scene.
• Cancer.
• Mental illness.
• Self-harm.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Dissociation.
• Suicide attempt.
• Unstable reality.
• Meltdown.
• Misophonia.
• Jump scares.
• Crying baby.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Obscene language.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Death of pregnant woman.
• Age-gap romance.
• Religion.
• Objectification of female characters.
• BDSM.
• Someone loses their virginity.
• Chronic illness.
• Homelessness.
• Debate over existentialism.
• Drowning.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• The Zone of Interest: https://tankie.tube/w/sVkspww6SXPfMnHRd714L2
• Poor Things: https://tankie.tube/w/ePUvWzN2yYyiRTBTRP48Kj