Posted on 01/18/2024 10:10:24 AM PST by Morgana
A new movie starring actress Emma Stone is being criticized for featuring children in an adult sex scene, further raising alarm for how much children are sexualized in Hollywood and in overall culture.
In an apparent twist on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein,” “Poor Things” tells the story of a woman named Bella Baxter, played by Stone, who initially committed suicide while pregnant. A mad scientist finds her body and takes the brain of her preborn child, implants it into Bella’s body, and resurrects her. This results in a living person with an adult woman’s body and an infant’s mind.
From the very beginning of the film, Bella is depicted engaging in sexual behavior, even when she purportedly has an infant’s mind. This, alone, is disturbing given that Planned Parenthood’s allies commonly repeat the claim that “children are sexual beings” — and by this, they typically mean that even very young children can experience sexual feelings and desires much like adults — an assertion based on the pedophilic “research” of Alfred Kinsey.
Though she develops throughout the movie, Bella has a child-like mind, and yet she is frequently having sex in the film, including while engaging in prostitution. This is portrayed as justifiable because Bella “is a being of free will” and therefore has the agency to do what she likes; even her would-be husband shrugs off her promiscuity, remarking, “It is your body, Bella Baxter; yours to give freely.”
As if this weren’t disturbing enough, one of the scenes in the movie is garnering a great deal of controversy. Bella has many clients while working in a brothel, but one of them is a father, who brings his two sons there to watch him have sex with her, as a warped version of sexual education.
According to BuzzFeed, this “original sex scene only ever featured in Poor Things’ film festival run,” because before being submitted for formal consideration, filmmakers re-edited the scene so that it did not depict “sexual activity in the presence of children.” If it had not been re-edited, it would have violated the UK’s Protection of Children Act 1978. The movie, however, was still rated by the BBFC as an 18 — the highest possible rating — largely due to the amount of nudity and graphic sex included. The run time for the film is the same in the U.S. and the UK.
Shockingly, angry cries of “censorship” erupted as a result of this “re-editing” to avoid depictions of the sexualization of children. Yet on X (formerly known as Twitter), one user responded to the censorship outcry by stating, “Well… don’t have sex scenes involving children, in any way, in your movie.”
It has become increasingly common for graphic depictions of sex to be pushed onto children. Even actress Gwyneth Paltrow, an outspoken supporter of Planned Parenthood, was in shock when she learned what her daughter was being taught in sixth grade sex ed class. “They taught them sex ed in sixth grade, which, like, yeah, OK. But I really was not prepared with the information that they came home with,” she said, explaining, “They taught them everything. Everything. Anything you’re thinking — they taught the 11-, 12-year-olds. Told them everything, I swear.”
This is not unusual for Planned Parenthood, which has long been in the business of selling sex to children. Bill Taverner, Executive Director at the Center for Sex Education —Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central, and Southern New Jersey’s sex education arm, with the largest national conference for sex educators — has openly claimed that children are “born sexual” (again, a Kinsey-created falsehood) and has even advocated for using pornography in sex ed classes.
The notion of letting children be children, and not exploiting and abusing them with adult sexual desires, is clearly something in which Hollywood and the abortion industry are not interested.
Editor’s Note, 1/12/24: This article has been updated for clarity.
Nope, and based on the first three paragraphs above, I will be passing.
She committed suicide while pregnant? Is there a plot element, explaining her suicide was due to evil abortion restrictions, and she felt no way out due to such restrictions?
It would not be surprising, if Hollywood idiots try to make a political statement in a movie, would it?
The Tom Hanks movie “Big” was kind of creepy for the same reason.
I saw something earlier on the controversy and the edited scene but not the basic plot. I don’t think the idea of an infant brain in an adult body means that they think it means. The edited scene isn’t shocking in concept just puzzling that it was filmed. Probably to generate buzz for an otherwise hard pass at the box office. They needed an angle to appear edgy.
I was looking forward to seeing it. Not now. Thanks for the “heads up”.
Yeah. Part of the deal with the movie is that by putting the baby brain in the adult body she now has all the hormones and urges but none of the societal training on how to deal with them. So she’s like a teenager, only more so.
Typical Leftwing moral convolutions furthering its deranged predatory desires.
No... Frankly, I’m so, so tired of all the tortured-psyche, DEI-infused idiocy coming out of entertainment media that is disguised as something relevant to society today?
I think it’s already won a bunch of awards.
Who watches these ugly, disturbing, sick, crappy movies.
People have time for this?
The audience, even though most likely full of libtards, gasped in unison at the audacity of such a horrible film.
Years later I see the same film available on Netflix.
The slope is no longer just slippery. It is frictionless.
And that’s nothing to snifff at!
Some people like to throw around the phrase "beta-cuck" as a sort of mindless, nearly meaningless insult.
THIS character, buoys and gulls, is a beta-cuck.
and to think that not that long ago actors and actresses who were married in the movie could not even have the same bed in the bedroom- had to have twin beds, and not close together either-
Even back then though the perverts and pedos were screaming about ‘censorship’ for having to follow a stricter movie code system-
Sad how far the movies have sunk and how degenerate they are with people screaming about ‘censorship’ because they can’t watch children in the movie watching their ‘father’ have sex with a woman
Only hollywood could come up with some sick azz 5h!t like that.
Probably the same sickos that did everything possible to blackout Sound of Freedom.....which was actually based on child sex trafficking actual events.
I wonder if this UK law was in response to the 1978 movie Pretty Baby starring an 11 year old Brooke Shields?
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