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Caroline Forgoit's "The Substance"
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THE SHINING (1980) HANNIBAL (2013-15) THE SUBSTANCE (2024)
#angelslatte#filmedit#tvedit#horroredit#theshiningedit#hannibaledit#thesubstanceedit#gifs**#misc parallels#the shining#hannibal#ap茅ritif#the substance#jack torrance#jack nicholson#delbert grady#philip stone#will graham#hugh dancy#jack crawford#laurence fishburne#elisabeth sparkle#demi moore
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The Substance (2024)
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venus // pluto
#saw the substance recently and !!!! it鈥檚 very good#may be going in my all time bangers but I need more time to digest it#also! the caption is referencing pluto by bj枚rk and venus by bananarama which I think is very big brained of me#I think their dichotomy fits the movie rlly well and it helps that they鈥檙e both songs named after planets#anyways#my conniptions getting to me#the substance#coralie fargeat#demi moore#margaret qualley#elizabeth sparkle#horror movie#fanart#the substance fanart#drawing#art#sketch#my art#illustration#digital art#wlw artist#horror art#artists on tumblr
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The Substance (2024) Carolie Fargeat Designed by Aleks Phoenix
#art#design#graphic design#cinema#films#movies#the substance#carolie fargeat#demi moore#Aleks Phoenix#u
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The Substance (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat
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Remember you are one
#my art#horror art#artists on tumblr#the substance#mubi#the substance movie#margaret qualley#demi moore#body horror tw /#food tw /#this movie WHIPS ASS please see it I鈥檓 obsessed#weird aesthetic#manga aesthetic
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In the meantime, take care of yourself.
THE SUBSTANCE 2024, dir. Coralie Fargeat
#the substance#the substance 2024#margaret qualley#demi moore#filmedit#horroredit#moviegifs#horrorwomensource#usersavana#userlolo#tuserdee#usermichi#userksusha#userbrittany#useranimusvox#userteri#tuserlina#tusercourtney#2020s#aashna#gif
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YOU ARE ONE
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THE SUBSTANCE (2024) dir. Coralie Fargeat
#the substance#thesubstanceedit#the substance 2024#demi moore#filmedit#userrobin#horroredit#userhorroredits#filmgifs#tuserdana#userksusha#usergilli#mikaeled#userbrittany#userhayf#userrlaura#goryhorroor#userbeckett#usergal#useraurore#userchristineb#userscary#usercrumb#userel#usercy#userconstance#xuseralex#gifs#20s#kane52630
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What I loved about the Substance was that it took impossible body standards imposed on women seriously. It didn't treat me like a kid throwing a temper tantrum about not being sexy. It didn't try to tell me "everyone is beautiful" and "every body is a beach body" in a pitiable voice that makes it all worse. There's no one singing to me about how "I cannot see my own beauty", as if validation from men will ever be enough to cover the black hole in my stomach drilled by years of self-loathing, binging-purging cycles and appetite-suppression pills. It haven't stopped for a second to congratulate itself for platitudes.
The substance threw an ice bucket on my head, grabbed me by the shoulders, dragged me to the mirror and told me "look at what violence you're inflicting on yourself!". It showed me a perfect body, the carrot on the stick, and then it hit it with a sledgehammer in white neon light. Is it worth it? Aren't you mad? Look at how he eats shrimp and doesn't wash his hands - is this the person you want to be liked by? Is this what you deserve for being human, really?
I've seen this movie on Friday and it's been stuck in my head ever since. I haven't looked in the mirror the same again. Somehow this made me kinder to myself.
I've seen reviewers say that this movie counts as "male gaze" and "violence against women" but I think they don't see the forest from the trees here.
First the male gaze: it felt like a deconstruction, in the best way. Sue's butt was the least erotic thing ever put to screen. The soft porn dance studio was shot in a lifeless manner, I felt like my mom was reading the browse history. Personally, I'd never want to have Sue's job. Even the sexist dudes that watch the movie seem to "get it", that their overly sexual media diet looks embarassing under the microscope. The medium is the message, and the sound and visual cues are all there to make sex appeal look very unappealing and immature. There's nothing sexy in "Pump it up", it's catchy and fun and has sexual undertones, but not a hint of sensuality.
Then the violence against women: there is only one scene where a man attacks a woman, and I'll not spoil it, but i'll say it's so bizzare it feels too cartoony to count. The rest of the violence is all self-inflicted. Every step of the way. Women don't just suffer abuse under patriarchy from men, they self-inflict and reenforce the structures of their own suffering onto others. Elizabeth is a fitness coach actively making bank off of other women's fears, and in the process of telling everyone over x kg to skip lunch she's grown her own self-loathing too. It wasn't really the horny men watching the fitness show, isn't it? Sue is even worse, she goes on talk shows to tell women her looks come from being kind, a silly statement considering she injects herself daily with an old woman's spine liquid while loathing her for existing. Elizabeth and Sue are both victims and perpetuators of violence, and it's gruesome because it's not a silly feminine thing, it's all-encompassing and a matter of life and death. Without violence, what would be the message of the movie? "It kinda sucks to be a woman hating your body". Doesn't sting, isn't it? This is not chopping women and putting them in refrigerators to give the good guy a reason to kill the baddie, this has to be violent to show the depth of pain of the protagonist. It's necessary. And I like it, because crying and wallowing in pain is not the behaviour you want to see on screens, it feels lethargic and leads to the problem not being taken as seriously.
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