Poor Things

A few actors of color in supporting roles, including Ramy Youssef, Jerrod Carmichael, and Suzy Bemba, but their race/ethnicity is incidental to the story. Despite her juvenile brain and initial imprisonment, Bella grows into a woman with agency over her own decisions, particularly about her body. Bella is exposed to poverty in Alexandria, Egypt; she sees dead brown babies from a distance.

Several gory scenes of surgeons (and Bella) cutting open cadavers or patients. A flashback shows how Godwin put an infant's brain in Bella's body. Godwin refers to the many experiments performed on his body, including one that turned him into a eunuch and another that left him unable to process digestion. Bella uses a knife to "play" with cadavers. She repeatedly plunges the knife in a dead body's eye sockets. Bella touches a woman servant's genital area without consent, misguidedly thinking she should help the maid feel good. The maid slaps her. Bella says she's going to punch a crying baby in the face and tries to approach him before being stopped. A character's violent, cruel nature is revealed when he points a gun at his servants, one of whom is wearing an arm sling; he also uses his trained dog to threaten people. One of Bella's lovers fights other men over her attentions. A character is shot and then falls. Chloroform is used to sedate people. Bella throws violent tantrums and smashes/destroys various items; she also bites someone's hand.

Frequent explicit sex scenes that always include partial nudity (and occasionally full-frontal) and various sexual positions/acts (some involving bondage or role playing). Bella becomes a sex worker at a Paris brothel; a montage shows her having sex with many different men, including an encounter in which a father brings his two tween/teen sons to watch him have sex as an instructional tool. As she discovers her sexuality, Bella masturbates and inserts items into her vagina. She also discusses the mechanics and pleasure of sex on many occasions. There's also kissing and cuddling. Nonsexual nudity early in the movie: A doctor sees Bella's nightgown slip off her breast while she sleeps, and in another scene, Bella plays with a male cadaver's penis.

Frequent use of "f--k" and "f--king," and a few uses each of "c--t," "s--t," "ass," "bitch," "whore," and more. "Jesus" and "God" as exclamations.

Adults often drink with meals and at taverns, occasionally to excess: wine, beer, hard liquor, cocktails. People also smoke cigarettes.