Last night, we watched, "The Substance," the new Demi Moore film, for which she has been receiving critical acclaim. It is a horror film, but it also attempts to describe the pain and challenge of growing older as a woman in Hollywood, a topic Moore knows quite well.
The movie includes some science fiction aspects that are quite astonishing, but these aspects seem to be allegorical. Margaret Qualley, in a breakout performance, plays Moore's younger alter ego named Pam, and she steals the show, in my opinion.
The movie is worth watching, but I recommend having the remote handy so you can fast forward through the many gory parts.
Let's hope we as a society become more comfortable with our aging and our mortality than these characters. I, for one, will not be ordering the Substance!
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