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Film · Mubi · 2024

The Substance

Name: The Substance scores 34 — Live Historic
Item: The Substance
Rating: 34
Author: Live Historic

34Leave it.

A furious film about the hunger to stay young. Adults only. It hates the hunger and also stares.

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The review

A studio tells a woman she is finished, and a drug offers her a younger body on the condition that the two selves take turns. They will not. The industry eats women by the year, and people consent to be eaten. I agree with that sentence. I do not agree that the way to say it is to linger on the ruined body until the audience is in the same appetite the film claims to indict.

Adults, if anyone. Do not take a teenager. The charge, stripped of the gore, is ordinary: stop buying the product that needs a woman to be finished at fifty, including the version you carry in the mirror.

Journal

Keep The Substance in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 34. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Get Out

46 instead of 34

Get Out is still a horror film, and it scores 46 instead of 34. What you gain is courage: He fights his way out of a house that asked him to be polite while it ate him.

The eight

6
Industry
Show business as a machine that retires a woman's face on a birthday.
1
Household
No marriage, no child, no house. The body is the only room.
2
Piety
A blasphemy against the body, and the film knows it is one.
4
Courage
She does a monstrous thing to herself. Endurance is not the same as courage.
4
Republic
A public that consumes a face and then demands the next one.
1
Temperance
Appetite is the whole plot, and the film cannot stop feeding it.
7
Truth
It tells the truth about the bargain and then punishes it. The excess is the problem.
2
Stewardship
Nothing is handed on but a warning, and the warning is drowned in the spectacle.

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Film · Netflix · 2026

Animals

34Leave it.

He wins the city on a rescue that was not his.

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The review

Mark Kimball has already spent what the house had, in secret, on a race he is losing. His wife is already gone in all but the papers. A call says their son is taken. The son is at home. The boy who was taken is Hector, the son of the man who waits on their housekeeper. A fixer is hired. At the end the public is told that Mark is the man who saved the boy, and the votes follow.

The measure is that last thank-you. A child was the price of a story, and the story is what the city believed. Do not admire the nerve.

Journal

Keep Animals in the record.