In The Substance, Demi Moore plays an aerobics TV star who turns 50 and is promptly ousted from her gig in Hollywood. She and Margaret Qualley duke it out this excruciating body horror tale.
, Demi Moore plays an aerobics TV star who turns 50 and is promptly ousted from her gig in Hollywood. She and Margaret Qualley duke it out this excruciating body horror tale.finds the Plastics, the trio of mean teens at the film’s center, standing in front of a bedroom mirror lamenting their individual physical “flaws”: “huge” hips, ugly calves, “man shoulders.
A self-administered injection of the Substance serum creates a younger, hotter version of Elisabeth – “Sue,” played by Margaret Qualley – but only for seven days at a time. After that period is up, she must switch back to her older self and repeat the process again and again … or else. “Remember you are one,” reads the card inside her supply kit.targets an expected source for Elisabeth’s drastic choice – men – though only on the periphery.
This is a towering showcase for Qualley and especially Moore, who might be channeling the abrasive, ever-spiraling spirit of Faye Dunaway inand late-period Bette Davis. On paper her character is thinly drawn, no family or friends to speak of, no backstory other than her identity as a faded TV star; Elisabeth and Sue are instead pure id, powerful vessels through which to deliver Fargeat’s primal scream.That primal scream is righteous and effective, to a point.
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