By Julio Torres
Full disclosure: I am friends with Emma Stone; I have never met Yorgos Lanthimos but I have been a fan since I saw “Dogtooth” in college. Transparency feels like a way of honoring a film about paranoia, gaslighting, lies and manipulation.
On first watch, my sympathy ping-ponged between Jesse Plemons’ Teddy and Emma’s Michelle. He’s a greasy, probably very unwell conspiracy theorist who has kidnapped a cold and robotic girlboss (my favorite little detail is her putting her trench coat on her shoulders to walk out of her mansion, taking three steps to her car and taking it off). Seeing her calmly listening to
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