I loved THE SUBSTANCE!
The Substance, a movie that may seem very strange, bizarre and crazy to many, however, I feel that it perfectly reflects reality or at least it is very similar.
Finally I could see this movie, I was really curious to see it since I always get ads for it, plus it won an Oscar for best makeup and this area interests me a lot since I love special effects, the film caught me from the beginning and as it progressed I liked it much more.
I am not a movie critic, but I enjoy commenting on movies or series that I liked a lot, today the substance inspires me to talk a little about it and how I interpret it from my point of view. The movie starts showing us the story of Elisabeth Sparkle played by the beautiful Demi moore, we see how her life full of fame is no longer the same because she has aged and no longer works for the industry, we see horrible comments she hears from the mouth of the disgusting Harvey a television executive quite grotesque the truth, I could say HE was the only character that gave me much disgust hahaha, but.... 100 points for the actor Dennis Quaid who made me feel very uncomfortable, in short, Elisabeth is in a moment of her life really sad, her dream falls into a thousand pieces and soon she will be fired to make way for another younger girl, in the middle of the chaos she has an accident in which luckily she was unharmed but from that moment she receives an invitation to try THE SUBSTANCE.
Let's think, if someone who tasted fame could not resist to experience the substance, what would happen to someone ordinary like all of us? Time passes and leaves sequels, or even sometimes we are not happy with our physique, in some way or another we always have insecurities, imagine having the possibility to change that and create a “better version of you” is tempting for anyone, but every decision of this magnitude can be a double-edged sword, you can never receive without giving anything in return and just this happens in the substance. The dissatisfaction with our body, seeing the deterioration of it is not easy and we always look for a way to feel good, to fill that void and I can perfectly compare the substance with real life where I have seen cases of people who start with a surgery and can not stop until completely erase what they were before.
Elisabeth decides to take the first step to continue with her career and decides to try the substance, when they explained how the substance works I imagined something totally different to what I saw on screen, I thought her face would transform as if it was magic, but... I couldn't be more wrong hahaha, literally “Su” comes out of Elisabeth's body from her spine, this scene is wonderful, I really liked it, it is so weird and interesting that it really left me frozen. The thing is that the best version of Elisabeth “Su” is already out and must remain that way for 7 days, after that time she must exchange again with Elisabeth for 7 more days, they explain to us that both are one, they have the same conscience... she just had to comply with all those rules to avoid it going wrong and everything going to hell, but, as human beings sometimes we do not know how to stop, we want more and more and little by little everything is going to sink in this story.
From now on we will see how Su rises as a new star, and honestly, she is beautiful, sensual and very flirtatious, I love Margaret Qualley, meanwhile, Elisabeth continues to feel terrible, when she returns to her reality she realizes that the world is still without her, she is completely alone, insecure and feeling more and more envious of “Su”, I honestly got to a point where I got confused and thought they were two totally different people, but in the end I think I interpreted that they were indeed the same person, only that she was fighting and struggling against herself and that version of her that could not be, she herself led to the worst self-destruction that we will see on screen.
It is a film that sometimes reflects a very dark comedy but also different realities, the world of show business is sometimes very cruel, not accepting ourselves and how society manages to destroy us with comments that only trample our self-esteem, how excesses never end well and the obsession with beauty can sometimes be deadly.
Even though I gave a lot of spoilers and you still haven't seen the movie I sincerely recommend it, if you are very sensitive it may affect you, but I thought it was a very good movie with spectacular performances.
And also I want to share with you the image of one of my favorite scenes, it sounds weird but I swear I laughed a lot in this part, the makeup was really good 10/10
Capturas tomadas directamente de la pelicula en Prime Video
Screenshots taken directly from the movie on Prime Video