Last year The surprising hit of horror was the "substance", The brilliant, bloody, bloody, bloody body deconstruction of Hollywood's relationship with aging and beauty standards. The film, which won an Oscar, helped "Interest" Demi Moore in her first Academy Awards Nomination During 40 years after the first breakthrough in the industry, on the road showing mainstream film movements, there is a hell of a lot of beauty that can be found in the cinema for the truly sick. As much as it is as popular as it was, the "substance" sharply undermines which it means to be "beautiful" and how it can only look like -It's Monstra Elisasu, if you're iousubopite), but it was also graphic, hug and gross it The audience is said to vomit during their projections. Many were afraid that the "substance" is a flux, Indian horror Cinderella Story of Film contempt from a big studio and collected a smaller distributor of art-house to become white on the ball. Fortunately, for those who long for more stories such as the aforementioned groteskers, she arrived in the form of Emily Blicfeld's debut feature, the Greek Step.

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Inspired by the original story "Cinderella" by Charles Pero and retaining the darkness of the Grimm brothers' version (who saw that one of the so -called Ugli Stepsisterers cutting off her fingers in an attempt to fit her feet into the glass, the global of the ball). The pop culture chose to show Cinderella's steps as horrible people, but was that the case? Or, they, like Cinderella themselves, fought with a misogyous world, choosing to fix their hearts's desires (by dreaming of something better) and ready to do everything they need to find a loveice and financial security for their family?

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The bent fairy tales are all anger thanks to the boom of the public domain of sprayers in recent years, but few can hold a candle as an intrusive and creative as well as Blicfeld. With "Ugly Steps", the director made a film just as beautiful as he was gruesome, full of moments of Gore, who had several people who sound to fight the urge to pull into the tracks of the 2025 film in Newou Orleans, Louisiana.

Walt Disney has done an incredible job in fraud by the general public to believe that its versions of fairy tales are definitive interpretations, but anyone who has been looking for the stories of the Grimm brothers knows that the vast majority of folk tales we hold are so dear, in fact, horror. "Ugly Steps" surprises the audience in a false feeling of getting to know the dress for a period, big castles and the poetic sounds in Norwegian. On the surface, the film looks like it fits into the home field with dramas of suits that come at age, such as "The Beguiled" or "The Beguiled" of Sofia Coppola or Greta Gervig's "Little Women", but as soon as the smelly horror shows her face, it is a snowball.

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Leah Mirora acts like Elvira, Rebecca's oldest daughter (Anne Dal Thorp), a woman who married a widow (seemingly for her money) and becomes the stepmother of the beautiful Agnes (Thea Sophie Loch Nases). After Agnes' father dies and reveals that he is broken (he turns out Also Rebecca is married to her assumed money), the widow - now responsible for three daughters - is thrown to panic. The family does not even have enough money for proper burial, so they are forced to leave the dead body of Agnes' father to rot in a hidden room of the house. But things are changing when it is sent across the country that the Prince is throwing a ball for all the qualified virgins to become his bride. The audience only has to look at Agnes, a classically beautiful blonde, to know that this is her fate ... but what about Elvira?

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Elvira is not "ugly" of any part of the imagination (peacefully looks almost identical to Lindsay Lohan around 2004 when she is in the best shape of the ball), but everyone in her life indicates that she does not look like her step. Knowing that she is essentially competing with her for the heart of the prince, she and her mother begin to invest in beautification procedures. Nose work, some false eyelashes, weight loss and new dress should do the trick - but what plastic surgery looks like in a while in front of plastic?

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Well, it seems that breaking someone's nose with a chisel before putting it in a metal cage to change size. It also means physical sewing of cocaine eyelashes as a numb agent, rather than gluing them. As for weight loss ... Well, let's say only the distributed cysticercosis is alive and well in the "Greek step". The lengths Elvira is ready to go to improve his appearance and have a shot in marriage to the prince, it looks extreme, if not pure barbaric, but its methods are not so different from what young women continue to turn on today. The film is a serious examination of the way society makes women believe they are inferior, persuading them to see their compatriots as competition and ignore the warning signs of their body that something is wrong if that means achieving beauty.

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However, refreshing, the "ugly step" also rises above many other "The villain was not actually so bad" stories in recent memory (Think "cruella"). The film never demonizes Agnes for Cinderella. She is no secret a terrible person who does not deserve happiness, only a woman caught in the same machine as a helbent to destroy us all, but can come out of it thanks to genetics, privilege and access to magic. Some girls just have all the happiness, and it's just as difficult as the tapeworm egg to swallow.

The "Greek Step" is the first feature of Blissfeld, and is unforgivable that the director was first given space (and budget) to make such a bite, bold and monstrous creative swing. The reason for "Cinderella" is a fairy tale because being a woman so clean and beautiful that the rich prince takes you from your terrible existence is a fantasy. The painful truth is that for most of us we will do Never Be Cinderella and have much more in common with the "Greek Step".

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For utterly disgusting as the scenes of Gore (I can't point out enough How does Cronenbergian get this movie), "Greek Step" is really special because it is a deeply relatively view of the way many of us engage in unhealthy practices in the name of "beauty". During the release of this film, one of the most popular trends of Tiknat is "Morning Shedding", ie. Videos where women in the early 20s (or even teenagers) remove mouth strips, beard strips, face masks and patches they wore in bed, all in the name of standing the natural progress of aging. After a while, looking at Elvira with the metal cage to reshape the nose, it ceases to look like an archaic beauty procedure for a period of time and begins to feel like a function mirror of the viewer watching the screen.

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Blishfeld talked to the audience at the "Overnight" Film Festival with a huge Loveube to Elvira and women like her because, as she explained, "I'm her". Elvira and her mother bet on all this to the belief that leaving drastic measures to twist and merge her body and face into something desirable for "standards" is the key to loveubeum, happiness and comfort. It is a bitter reminder that, for the same as oppressive malicious as today beauty standards, this is nothing new.

The IC will announce the "Greek steps" in the theaters on 18 April 2025. He will head to Suder shortly after that.