Oh Mia, You Devil

My long time love affair from afar with Mia Wasikowska has borne more fruit this week as she's teamed up with Little Joe director Jessica Hausner to make a feircely dark (yet poppy bright) satire of "wellness" bullshit called Club Zero -- I liked it quite a bit and you can read my review over at Pajiba. This movie isn't for the faint of heart -- for those triggered by eating disorder stuff it's basically a repeated stab in the eye -- but it's not making fun of eating disorders; it's making fun of the cultishness that surrounds a lot of liberal nonsense (and please do understand this is coming from someone as liberal as they come). It's just nice to see somebody figuring out how to make fun of our extremes in ways that don't resort to MAGA mouthbreathing or anti-"woke" gibberish. This is very much a "call is coming from inside the house" sort of satire I think and I dug it, especially since it would piss off a lot of people who need to have their nonsense poked at, if they were to ever watch it anyway. It's important to remmeber there is no cow too sacred! Anyway if you've never seen Hausner's movie Little Joe I recommend that one too -- not only does it co-star Ben Whishaw, but it takes the pharmaceutical industry to task in interesting and unexpected ways.