Poor Things: 'In America, there’s a lot of shame around sexuality and nudity'
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things.
At first glance, Bella Baxter looks like an ordinary, if captivatingly beautiful, young woman. Her long, dark hair and stark eyebrows contrast with her pale skin and wide eyes and she seems to look upon the world with a child-like wonder and curious rebelliousness.
That is, in fact, because Bella Baxter might have the body of a woman but her brain is that of a child. She is an experiment of Godwin Baxter, a zany scientist with wondrous ideas who brought her back from the dead. Now she has the truly unique experience of moving through the world as an adult but with the innocent, inquisitive mind of a child — a state ripe for manipulation were she not such a headstrong character.
