Elisabeth Sparkle: You have to.
Sue: CONTROL YOURSELF!
Oliver: Hey, Sue! How have you been, I've missed you.
Elisabeth Sparkle: FUCK OFF!
Harvey: Pretty girls should always smile!
Elisabeth Sparkle: There's been a slight misuse of the Substance.
The Substance (2024)
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Directed by: Coralie Fargeat
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley
Continuity mistake: When Sue's boyfriend walks to the bathroom door and looks down at the blood on the carpet, he's wearing shorts, but in the next shot, he's suddenly naked.
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Question: Why would the New Year's Eve special at the end of the movie allow naked women to be viewed by the audience and on public television without censorship? Also, why would a mother allow her young daughter in the audience (the little girl in the blue dress) to see these naked women on stage?
Answer: The film is depicted in a very fantastical and even "cartoonish" way. It doesn't really take place in "our world" so much as a sort of twisted "fairy-tale" version of it. If you notice, everything is very heightened and extreme. The film explores themes like the impact of aging, beauty standards, and the way women are mistreated and exploited by the industry. So you shouldn't be asking why these things are literally happening, but rather why they're thematically happening. The New Year's Eve special broadcasting nude women builds off the themes; it's more exploitation the film has been analysing. In this "world," it's just accepted. As for the little girl? I took that as a satirical statement on how normalized the mistreatment and exploitation of women in the industry is. It's so normalized that a little girl is idolising it, and her mother is allowing her to see it.
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