Film "Poor Things" - Part of Shift from Rationalism to, Yes, Mysticism of Tarot Cards

 

Just when you thought no satire could come up to British comic John Oliver's takedown of McKinsey, here is movie Poor Things. 

HUMOR SO DARK, MIXED WITH SCI FI

Set in Victorian England it uses dark humor, sci fi and alternating black and white/color to depict the wild journey of a female from traditional values to being a freethinker/doer who gains power and wealth. Simultaneously she softens enough to be able to love and forgive. 

Essentially it is the story of a very pregnant well-dressed woman who takes a suicide leap into the water. Mad scientist Dr. Baxter retrieves the dead body, transplants the dead infant's brain into the woman's and electrifies what comes together to life. 

Originally Victoria Blessington wife of a cruel rich man, the creature is renamed Bella Baxter. As she develops from infancy, in an adult body, she pushes for knowledge of the world and herself. Via a lustful lawyer she escapes captivity with Dr. Baxter and his assistant (with whom she had become engaged). 

BELLA OUT INTO THE WORLD

That takes her everywhere, including working in a Paris brothel (proposing procedural changes), becoming deeply interested in theories about the human species (is cruelty hardwired) and experimenting with improving life as it is (giving away all her lawyer's money). 

The template of such a radical journey is open for application to any aspect of a current life, be it big as that of a CEO or smaller as with strivers for simply making a good living. Some speculate paradigm shifts are in the ether. 

ROARING TWENTIES, FLIGHT FROM RATIONALISM

Those could involve a circling back to The Roaring 20s from the doom-and-gloom since 9/11 and/or even the emergence of another Romantic Era (as in the 19th century) with a flight from rationalism. Regarding the latter, The New York Times salutes Tarot cards as tools for self-awareness and the New York Post reports that in sophisticated NYC psychics are replacing therapists.

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