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Has anyone else here watched The Substance? i was quite disappointed by it tbh - i really liked how it started but i felt a lot like it didn't trust me to get the point on my own. So much revisitation, so many things either told or so obviously shown you might as well be telling. Like "process that makes you hot and young but its excruciating and yucky" is a great metaphor for so many things about the U.S. obsession with aging and youth, but i felt like we missed out on so many more interesting story ideas because of the hyperfocus on "wow isn't this excruciating and yucky?" I got it the first time. Maybe let's have a more honest conversation about where the desire to do that to yourself comes from than just "men are gross and perverts" (which they totally are but you could easily talk about whyyyyyy)