It’s really hard to talk about this movie in any sensible way. Like, I saw one article refer to it as “a twist on the Frankenstein story” and okay sort of but also not really. To some extent, I think you can view the movie as an interrogation of the construction of society, or about how people learn to come to terms with that construction.

But it’s also just a wildly inventive movie visually; it starts off in a cold, creepy, claustrophobic house in black-and-white, and then turns to color as it opens up to the fantastical, heightened vistas of the rest of the world. In what felt like a nod to Pleasantville, that switch to color also coincides with the first time the main character has sex.

And there’s a lot of sex in the movie: It’s really about sex to a large degree, in an almost fable-like way; and it isn’t shy with the nudity. And ultimately, I think what you have to say about the movie is that it’s weird, horny, and has a distractingly large number of shots with fisheye lenses — which is to say, it’s a Yorgos Lanthimos movie, albeit here working in the kind of fantastical maximalist vibe of Barbie or Everything Everywhere. I think it works exceptionally well, and recommend it.