Poor Things 2025. Poor things is about the masculine ideal of power, and how reductive—and plain silly—it looks through the eyes of one who hasn’t yet been conditioned to it. Director yorgos lanthimos brings something to the table that’s exceedingly rare in an age of such correctitude and caution:
Lanthimos’ latest film poor things is another of his signature dark comedies, following the story of a woman reborn and coming of age in a gloriously unhinged steampunk. Poor things opens in steampunk london where a maverick scientist named godwin baxter (willem dafoe), like mary shelley’s victor frankenstein, brings a dead woman.