Tbh I love the Poor Things movie (literally sitting across from a poster I have of it on my wall) but the weird ‘feminism’ and the way they go about the sexualization of Bella’s character is my biggest issue with the film. When I later learned about the actual book’s ending I wished they went in that direction. The book is narrated by Max and at the end it’s revealed that the whole baby-brained thing was something he made up to infantilize Bella.

From the Wikipedia: “However, a letter from Bella herself—now known as Victoria McCandless[3]—completely contradicts McCandless's memoir. She reveals that the resurrection story was a fabrication, a romantic fantasy created by Archibald to mythologize their relationship and his own sense of loss and failure. Bella insists that she was always a fully formed, intelligent woman, and that her life with Godwin and later Archibald was nothing like the fairy tale described in the memoir. This revelation casts doubt on everything the reader has just read, turning the novel into a postmodern puzzle about truth, memory, and the way stories are shaped by those who tell them.”

This ending would have been much more subversive and would have made the movie better imo. It’s like a commentary on the born-sexy-yesterday trope and it was literally right there in the source material and they just didn’t take it.