Warning: This article contains spoilers forThe Substance.
If you’ve made it here, congratulations!
You survived all 140 bloody, bonkers, absolutely bats— minutes ofThe Substance.
Demi Moore in ‘The Substance’.Christine Tamalet/Courtesy of TIFF
Sue begs her viewers to accept her as she is, declaring her identity to onlookers as they recoil.
“Its the first moment where shes able to love herself.
For the first time, theres self-indulgence, tenderness.
Margaret Qualley, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid in ‘The Substance’.MUBI
Its the first time she looks at herself in the mirror and doesnt criticize herself.
Moore agrees, adding that she interpreted the scene the same way.
Its just dissolving back into nothingness, from whence we all came,” Moore says.
Youre all complicit in crafting this violence, so this is the violence back.
Its symbolic:Lookat the violence, dont shy away," she says.
Oh, and that blood splatter that hits the camera at one point?
She definitely meant to do that.
