KINDS of KINDNESS-A Triptych that is Sick, Depraved and Gratuitous with Emma Stone/Jesse Plemmons

Let me count the ways the triptych film, "Kinds of Kindness" is sick. Firstly, the gratuitous sex and nudity was off-putting. Furthermore, the salacious elements are even less offensive than the overriding theme of man's delusional search and belief in a messiah figure. Despite the possibility this could lend itself to an intelligent debate, all three stories revel in the glory of abject worship to a false god and dismiss any notion of free will. The film's director/screenwriter Yorgos Lanthimos was the writer/director for the film, "Poor Things" which won several Acad. Awards including best Actress for Emma Stone and a Best Picture nomination (2024). In "Kindness" Lanthimos goes back to the well recasting stars Stone along with Willem DaFoe, Margaret Qualley and rehashing his Frankenstein motif; the ability of man to create life and cast it aside. In "Poor Things," Stone's character was brought back to life by DaFoe. Stone referred to DaFoe as God in the film. Stone began life anew as a nascent being inside a woman's body. Perhaps, her innocence and dependence on DaFoe can be compared to that of a child's attachment to a benevolent parent. In "Kindness" all 3 stories deal with adults who lack free will and self-reasoning. The characters all entrust a Svengali figure. They gladly do his bidding regardless of how repulsive the task required. In one vignette, Robert (Jesse Plemons) is compliant with what George (Willem DaFoe) dictates as his quotidian steps until he balks at one baffling task. George wants him to smash his car into another car at a speed that could easily kill the other driver. Robert's reluctance results in him becoming totally ostracized and dismissed. This rejection proves too much for Robert whose hesitance to commit murder is deemed trivial in comparison to being cast out from the paradise created for him by George. In the last vignette, Emily (Stone) is a devotee to Raymond (DaFoe) and member of his eerie cult of white robed followers. All members have consensual sex with Raymond when not pursuing the quest of retrieving a messiah capable of raising the dead. Emily is drugged into having sex with her estranged husband. Sex with any one other than Raymond constitutes banishment from inside the gated enclave estate. Stone is deemed impure despite submitting to a dangerous, detoxification ritual. Emily cannot bear being dismissed. She's determined to find someone who possesses the omnipotent power to instill life into a corpse. I don't fault the actors who worship Mr. Lanthimos. They are all earnest in their abhorrent roles.  But, "Kinds of Kindness" is analogous to a blindness not unlike realizing the emperor Lanthious is wearing  no clothes. The film is flagrantly gross and perverse. Watching necrophilia couldn't be worse.