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As Sue (Margaret Qualley) is plunging a needle into an infected wound, consumed by a single-minded pursuit of perfection and unable to stop herself, despite it destroying what’s left of Elisabeth’s (Demi Moore) body and life, it becomes clear she is hooked on chasing beauty and ‘fixing’ her every imagined flaw.
Coralie Fargeat’s satirical body horror film The Substance follows Elisabeth’s journey as she experiments with an unregulated injectable drug that guarantees to make her a “younger, more beautiful, more perfect” version of herself. As Elisabeth is shoved out, Sue is ushered in, and while, at first, the 2 uphold the foundations, soon the characters’ actions spiral uncontrolled, starting to exhibit classic signs of substance dependency...
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Extreme weight-reduction plan is the most recent way for the mega-rich to signal their wealth and standing
“I don’t want all this shit,” shrieks Logan Roy, characteristically hot-tempered, within the opening episode of Succession’s second season. The “shit” in query is platter after platter of shucked oysters, fat orange prawns, and lobsters smothered in garlic butter served up on beds of ice. “Pizza! We’ll have pizza,” Logan commands. And so his staff carry away the dishes teeming with crustaceans and unceremoniously dump them into the bins outside. The emergency pizzas are duly ordered and laid out on the dining table because the Roy family get right down to business, but these too remain...
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