Substance
review by
jaron summers (c) 2024
Films such as Sunset Boulevard and Dorian Gray are metaphors for Glamour-Gone-Goofy.
Most Hollywood films of glamor-gone-goofy leave something to the imagination.
The Substance leaves NOTHING to the imagination, but its subtext reveals brilliance.
Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) regains youth via an injection like Ultra Uber Ozempic. Consequences? Becoming Ms. Frankenstein, and worse—a body double, or triple (Margaret Qualley).
So what’s Ms. Moore going do? Here’s a hint: The film is two and half hours long.
And here’s the good news: it seems like ten minutes.
And one more thing, Substance is a horror film, and the horror is you can’t stop watching it.