Poor Things - Anna’s Archive (2024)

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According to OCLC, as an online pirate library search engine, Anna's Archive “distributes and makes available for free download through file torrents materials in violation of copyright laws.” (Id.; ECF No. 9 at 6.)

The film's themes have led to backlash, with some claiming that the fact it has a male director, and therefore a male gaze, makes it sexist. There have also been accusations that the nudity is exploitative and that, because Bella has the brain of a child, there are consent issues at play.

In January 2024, Anna's Archive was blocked in Italy due to a copyright complaint by the Italian Publishers Association.

The entire structure of Poor Things, centers around the simple premise of a woman without shame, whom every man in the film wants to control in some way.

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Disabled author Carly Findlay criticized the film's use of makeup and prosthetics to create the character Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Defoe)'s facial differences. This is an old Hollywood trope that many people with facial and limb differences have criticized as harmful.

“Poor Things” was one of the big winners at last night's Academy Awards.

Godwin Baxter's (Willem Dafoe) latest experiment is reanimating a woman's corpse by using an infant brain for a brand-new person he's coined Bella (Stone). While Bella mentally develops from ages 2 to 20 with the body of a 30-year-old at rapid speed, she catches the attention of four different men.

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Content warning: the film depicts scenes of blood, interior organs, dead corpses, graphic surgery, suicide, sexual assault, prostitution and nudity.

Bella ends up living happily at Godwin's estate and swapping Alfie's brain with a goat. Bella's choice to leave Max at the altar for Alfie hints at her curiosity and desire for truth. Duncan reunites Bella and Alfie out of spite and control, but she eventually breaks free.

Archibald McCandless (Archie) that at first appears to be a historical ('factual') document, but that he later concludes is fictional. However, for the editor of Poor Things, also named Alasdair Gray, the McCandless document serves as impetus to reconstruct himself as historian and put forth the text as history.

The court decisively ruled that Internet Archive's practice of scanning books and making them freely available on its website is copyright infringement and does not constitute fair use.

Libgen is safer than your typical torrent sites because it has a direct download option instead of just torrenting (but if you do accidentally use the torrenting option, you're open to viruses and malware that may be included with the file). However, that doesn't mean that it's without risks.