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Poor Things


This movie opens at a bridge with a woman standing there and she dives in the water. Then in another scene, this woman is sitting by the piano and lands her fingers on the keys. She's trying to play something while wearing a puffy dress. Then a scared, face, man watches her play with her feet now elevated on the piano. At the dining room table it's no different, while this strange woman pounds her silverware on the table. 

She grabs some food with her hands, chews on it and she spits it out. The strange man makes a bubble form with his mouth open. He makes a strange sound. She claps her hands, and he detached the tube from the side of his stomach. Everything is strange. Especially when kisses her forehead and leaves while she follows him saying ba, ba, ba and a half-duck-half-dog is following her.

Dr. Godwin Baxter is a strange scientist who teaches anatomy at a college. Baxter asks his students if they can tell human organs from animal. He invites one of his students to his home to meet Bella Baxter. She stands in the dining room shattering dishes. She hears Godwin come inside and she says God, God and hugs Dr. Baxter. Bella hits the student in the face. And Dr. Baxter says blood to Bella so she repeats what he says. He wants his student to help improve Bella's progress concerning her brain injury. And while he asks him, she urinates on the floor. She calls it wee.

Max McCandles observes Bella at the table and she throws food at him. While Dr. Baxter works on a body, Bella says, "Bella cuts too?" Baxter says "only dead." Then Bella takes sharp device and cuts on the body's eye, laughing and saying squish, squish. The chicken barks like a dog and Bella gives the strange animals snacks of some kind. Everything around this person is strange. Max's observation shows how Bella is using fifteen words a day. Max also told Baxter her hair grows two inches every two days. Max asks where Bella comes from, and Baxter says he is just collecting data, and details about who she is will come later. 

Baxter reads Bella a book and she asks where her parents are and he said they died in South America due to a landslide and she was sent to him as an orphan. Bella asks Max why he pen book everyday? He tells her why and she asks him where places are in the world. She walks outside and stands on top of the roof and throws down a piece of pottery. She goes to see Baxter and demands to go outside. She gets her wish and they ride around in the carriage. They have a picnic and Bella asks Baxter why his thumbs look strange. He told them his father made them that way. 

As the drive off Bella sees an ice cream stand and screams she wants ice cream 🍦 and Dr. Baxter says no. She pushes hm, demanding they stop for ice cream. Baxter smothers her face with cloriform and she faints. Max goes inside Baxter's office looking for truths concerning Bella. He finds a book full of notes stating how he gave her the brain of a child- her child and the child was still alive in her womb when she committed suicide. So he performed a freaky Frankenstein procedure on her.

Bella awakens and has urges for sex. At the dinner table, she master bates sitting there. The brain of a chld, doesn't know these things. She tries grabbing the maid and Max tells her those things are not done in polite society after she picks up a pickle. Later that night, Bella leaves the dinner table and Baxter suggests Max marry Bella. She sill wants to go out and asks Max to take her out. And they lick each other's ears. Max asks Baxter if he was laying with her. Dr. Baxter tells him he's a eunich and can't perform.

Max asks Bella to marry him and Bella says let's touch each other's genital pieces and Max says he doesn't want to take advantage of her and they will wait till married. However, this is a legal agreement between Max and Baxter and he will have to live there always. Mr. Duncan creates their legal contract and is curious about Bella. So much, he pretends to use the restroom and finds Bella. He tells her she can't go in the city if she married Max. 

Duncan is a legal aid helping Dr. Baxter create a contract on things Bella can and cannot do in the marriage. He meets Bella on top of the roof and watch the fireworks. Duncan asks Bella to go away with him. Bella tells Dr. Baxter, the next day she's going away with Duncan and he agrees. Max learns of this and he tells Bella the reason why she shouldn't go away with him. She kisses him and places cloriform over his nose and she says goodbye. Dr. Baxter walks in kisses her forehead and gives her money and checks Max's pulse.

Max awakens and Bella is not there. Max asks Dr. Baxter why he didn't stop her and he says she has strong will. Max hopes she's safe and suddenly there's color and gray disappears with Bella having a heated moment with Duncan. They eat oysters and then they journey to Lisbon. Duncan introduces Bella to more food and he says it's yester-time and off they go again without a heated discussion. Until after, Bella asks Duncan why people don't do this all the time. Duncan said "let us sleep." Bella doesn't sleep and decides to go out.

She listens to a woman singing and wonders off to roof where she throws up. She returns to Duncan and says she found her way back using the noise. Duncan said she shouldn't have left without him. She wants to be intimate again and they go to a restaurant afterwards. The dine with another couple and Bella spits the food out of the mouth. She then wants to punch th e baby that's crying and Duncan grabs her by the arms and explains why her actions are rude.

Bella sends Max and Dr. Baxter a postcard. Bella goes to the bar and tries some vodka. A woman recognizes Bella and she callsher Victoria Blessington and because she doesn't know who she is, Bella says her name and says the woman is mistaken. They order some food and start dancing. Later, Duncan sees markings on both of her thighs and the story freaks him out and he leaves. He really likes Bella and is devastated by knows of the other man.

Dr. Baxter passes out during his lecture and the more he talks about his father the worse it gets. His father put hot irons on his genitals. When Bella wakes up, Duncan tells her to lay inside of the trunk and she does. He unlocks the trunk and tells her to look out of the window. They are on a large boat and they are sailing. She is angry and locks herself in the bathroom. She finally leaves and asks a worker when they'll stop and he said in th ree days when ariving in Athens.

She sleeps on a recliner and later joins Duncan and as they observe the people, a woman's hair catches fire 🔥. He apologizes for bringing her on the ship but he has his reasons. And he says he loves her. She wants a drink while Duncan expresses his love for her sitting he never felt this way for anyone before. Bella needs ink and he goes a to get her some.  She tells an older woman she must touch her hair. The woman says to Bella her hair looks like silk. She describes Duncan, sexually to her and Bella asks if the young man next to is jumping her and she says no, she hasn't been bedded in over twenty years and Bella says "what." As they continue talking she discovers their names is Martha and Harry Astely. She introduces them to Duncan as her new friends. Bella wants to dine with them and Duncan objects to the idea. However, since they're on a ship, the idea is better than nothing. Duncan asks Bella to marry him and she says what. She mentions Max and Duncan says she ran away with him. 

It also appears that Dr. Baxter has a replacement...A brand new Bella who can't catch a ball yet but they are training her. The new project cries when Max throws the ball on her face. Back on the ship, Bella is reading a philosophy book while reclining next to Martha and Harry. Bella tries to make since of the book and Harry says it's a waste of time. He throws each book into the sea. 

Bella asks Duncan to come while he's playing a game of cards. Bella leaves while he refuses. Bella is reading another book while Duncan walks in the room and tries to get Bella in the mood. He then threatens to throw Martha overboard and Bella dares him. Duncan marches to where she is and tries to throw Martha overboard. The crew stops him and Duncan says he'll be at the bar. The ship changed the relationship between them.

Bella couldn't sleep and goes to talk to Harry. Bella tells him she disagrees...Everyone isn't bad. Harry tells her she doesn't know the world and she's afraid of it. He offers to show her the world. In Alexandria Harry shows her around while Duncan is gambling. Bella asks Harry what the noise is and they look down and see young people dead or starving. He explains what will happen if they dare to help them. 

Bella starts to panic and runs almost off the cliff while Harry stops her. Returns to the ship and her room while Duncan is drunk with a lot of money on the bed. And Bella other's the money and mistakenly hands it to crew members who said they will take care of it. She writes a letter to Dr. Baxter and he says, "poor Bella." 

She talks to Harry and hopes his finger is alright. Harry tells Bella she can't change the world with all the theories of man. She tells Harry his been hurt by these ideas and kissed him and says goodbye. She and Duncan are now in Paris with nowhere to go. Bella believes their situation is a experiment they can find a way out of. Until, she meets a madam who works in a nearby brothel. Bella asks her if she gets paid to do this and the madam says yes.

Bella goes to room Sixteen and this hairy man is already in the room. It was strange for Bella and when done, he gave her some money. She used her new funds for some sweets and hands Duncan some and she explains what happened. Duncan calls her a whore and is very wroth with anger. Bella tells him she'll pay for his departure and takes out some money Dr. Baxter gave her and Duncan becomes more angry, grabs the money and then leaves.

Bella talks to the madam and asks her for employment and they come to an agreement. One of her clients is fat and strange, and a bit horrific. A new friend of helps her gets rid of the smell. Bella tries to make her demands for more clean and handsome men. The madam tells her no because it's not good business. She then tries to know them through much talking and jokes. Her idea this sort of thing is edgy. For example, one of her clients is a man of the cloth, a priest.

Another, tries to teach his sons sex education while using Bella. She later hears some one screaming and it's Duncan. He still wants to marry her. Dr. Baxter thinks he's dying and tells Max to find her. Bella experiences more different things and her friend says she has a baby scar. Max meets Duncan in a mental hospital and he told him Bella ruined him.

Bella receives news that Dr. Baxter is ill and dying. She goes to London and everything comes full circle when Bella asks him if she had a baby, where is it? Max shows her the file and she also meets the new woman who repeats everything she hears. Bella goes to the bridge where she first jumped. She tells God (Dr. Baxter) she's going to be a doctor. Max and Bella talk about their engagement only to discover it's still on and they marry. Dr. Baxter walks Bella down the aisle and his energy is coming from the use of social drugs.

Something strange happens in the cathedral...A man interrupts their union to wed and he say, "Hello Victoria." Her real name is Victoria Blessington and the man is still married to her and his name is Alfie. Bella leaves Max behind and rides inside his carriage. Alfie never left the battle field and he's a very angry person. If there was to be an uprising from the service its well deserved against him. Bella is now back where she first started and is locked inside Alfie's mansion. This guy wants to remove Bella's clitoris.

He tried to sedate her and instead, Bella throws the gin in Alfie's face and shot him in the foot. Bella gets Max to take the bullet out of his foot. And they have a goat in the room. Dr. Baxter dies and the movie takes a turn I didn’t expect to happen. It becomes a happy ending with some gin in hand.

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