"That's the ecological crisis that drives Teddy (Jesse Plemons) to kidnap high-powered CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), shave her head, and chain her in his basement. She's a member of the Andromedan alien race, you see, and this is the only way he can gain an audience with their emperor and persuade them to leave their planet. Never mind that Teddy has no evidence of said alien incursion, except for what he learned from random YouTube users and conspiracy theory podcasts."
"With his long, stringy hair and clearly deranged belief about aliens living among us, he should come off as the worst kind of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist, a representation of the rotten core of our post-2020 paranoid society. And yet, Plemons gives one of his gentlest performances so far, as a man who genuinely believes he's trying to save humanity, even if it means he has to kidnap and torture a woman to do it."
"Focus Features Bugonia is technically a remake of the South Korean sci-fi black comedy Save the Green Planet! but it feels more loosely inspired by Jang Joon-hwan's madcap 2003 movie. Lanthimos and screenwriter Will Tracy follow the broad beats of the original, but shave down some of its wilder excesses, honing the story to a fine, sharp point that ultimately cuts deeper. It's undeniably a Lanthimos movie, one that's unpleasant and cruelly funny, but"
An ecological crisis caused by dying bees motivates Teddy to kidnap CEO Michelle Fuller, shave her head, and chain her in his basement to prove she is an Andromedan alien. Teddy believes forcing an encounter will allow him to appeal to the alien emperor and persuade them to leave Earth, despite having no real evidence beyond online conspiracy sources and a possible personal grudge over a failed medical trial. Jesse Plemons portrays Teddy with a gentle, shuffling awkwardness that complicates sympathy for his actions. Emma Stone delivers a powerful performance as Michelle. Yorgos Lanthimos directs with unnerving, darkly comic tones, tightening the story compared with its South Korean predecessor.
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