{"id":40923,"date":"2025-11-18T19:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=40923"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:53:47","slug":"bugonia-trades-social-commentary-for-shock-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/bugonia-trades-social-commentary-for-shock-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Bugonia Trades Social Commentary For Shock Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two years after directing the Academy Award-winning film <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poor Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Yorgos Lanthimos has another potential awards season contender with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bd_5HcTujfc\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bugonia<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film, released on Oct. 24, follows the story of Teddy Gatz, a conspiracy theorist and Don, his autistic cousin, who kidnap the CEO of a pharmaceutical company.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They believe the company&#8217;s CEO, Michelle Fuller, is an alien from outer space sent to control the human race using medicine. After kidnapping Fuller\u2014played by Emma Stone\u2014they interrogate her.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those scenes build up loads of tension, commenting on the real-life effects of radicalization and conspiracies. But the movie undermines that buildup with a crazy plot twist in the third act when it\u2019s revealed that Fuller is an alien.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a technical level, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bugonia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is brilliant and the performances of the three main characters are phenomenal. The script, however, starts strong but dips in quality at the end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The dark comedy uses a lot of charged language and ideas. For example, the writers blame Teddy\u2019s reprehensible actions on his abusive upbringing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His father abandoned him when he was young, his mother was a narcissist who was addicted to opioids, his babysitter sexually assaulted him, he loses contact with all of the friends he grew up with and the only remaining living family member he has at the beginning of this film is Don, but all of that is used only as a backdrop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The movie never takes an opportunity to say anything about Teddy\u2019s trauma and instead uses it for shock value.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a manipulative conversation with Michelle, Don decides Teddy will be OK without him and shoots himself in the head.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scene has a lot of emotional weight, but falls flat with lazy writing\u2014a young mentally handicapped person randomly kills himself so other characters can have something devastating to react to.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It feels like Don\u2019s entire inclusion in the movie boils down to that scene and that seems gross.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The same thing happens with Teddy\u2019s old babysitter, who only serves as comic relief.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every time you expect Teddy to have a big emotional moment because the person who sexually abused him keeps trying to reinsert themselves into his life, he doesn&#8217;t seem to care. Instead the scenes are just for cheap laughs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These moments only chase audience reaction giving the film a shallow feel. The only character that ends up having a complete arc by the end is the antagonist, Fuller.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thematically, the film reminds me of another film that came out this year, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/eddington-makes-us-reflect-on-2020\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eddington<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both movies deal with a man falling down conspiratorial rabbit holes, but the way these films treat the onslaught of misinformation and desensitizing shock content is very different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bugonia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> engages with its subject material on a surface level and never makes any real commentary on it. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eddington<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fully dives into it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The viewer goes down their own rabbit hole and is confronted with difficult questions and statements about those questions that are hard to swallow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both films aim to tackle different problems, but only <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eddington<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> manages to follow through, carrying real social commentary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For as good of a movie as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bugonia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is, the way it handles many of its sensitive topics leaves you wanting more. At the end, viewers realize the film isn\u2019t going to give you that and that\u2019s a sad reality to resign yourself to when watching a movie.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after directing the Academy Award-winning film Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos has another potential awards season contender with Bugonia. 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