This is pretty much pop, a culture podcast. You're not quite sure what we're on about, but you know it's unpleasant.

Likewise, is the work of director Jorgos Latimos, whose latest film, Poor Things, has won some golden globes, and as of this recording, has been Oscar nominated in 11 categories. I'm Mark Lentemeyer, and because I did fall in love,

I was not transformed into a dog chicken. This is Al Baker, born sexy yesterday, in the most

literal sense. Ah, poor things. Graphic sex, corpse stabbing, digestion aids, disfigured faces,

brain swapping, animal abuse, what's not to love?

This is Lawrence where coming to you from Oklahoma City, and I respect this director, but I fucking hate his films.

Oh, strong, strong. The Oscars will have happened by the time folks hear this, but we wanted something

Oscars related and poor things has been getting a lot of buzz. I didn't really connect it with

a larger corpus until we were considering doing this. And I remember finding the lobster

interesting and quirky, but ultimately kind of unpleasant and didn't want to

watch it again. Very unpleasant. I did watch it again, and I thought it was the most likable

of, you know, and poor things is close. He has the artsy style. Things are drawn out, and of course,

we'll talk about the tone and the gratuitous violence and all the gross sex that is in for things in particular and all his films.

But watching Dog Tooth and then this morning I actually fit in Alps, his film after Dog Tooth, which is even sort of less pleasant, not more violent, but just less enjoyable even than Dogtooth.

Yeah, an interesting director, I don't know that I can actually say I like any of these films, but maybe poor things.

There were definitely, Sarah, your menu actually describes pretty well, like anything with that

much wackiness and such great cinematography and interesting performances. Like, this is not the

sterile weirdness of his earlier films. No, no, no, no. I'm jumping in right now. I'm jumping in right now.

I need to make my position clear. All right, Lawrence. Because I did not want to watch this shit. I didn't want to watch it, right? I believe it was Sarah. It was Sarah's weird ass who really advocated. Wasn't it Sarah? Wasn't it Sarah? Wasn't it? I think it was you. I think it was you. who advocated for it. I like horror movies, guys. I like some really depraved things. I really enjoy it. I don't know what it is. It's so like the killing of Sacred Deere is kind of horror adjacent, right? But I don't know what it is about this particular director. He's a really good director. His sonotography is always good.

He's really good with actors.

He's really good.

It is so deeply unpleasant to watch this stuff.

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