The Substance

I have many thoughts about this film, and I don't really have the time to put it all together into one coherent whole, but an incoherent whole is also what the film also gave us, so I don't mind mirroring it. This film is three movies in a trench coat—one per act. The First Act The first act was about beauty standards. The entertainment industry. The youth-consuming machine. The brutality of every…