What a hallucinating journey. “The Substance” is covered of guts and intuition, is a a raw show with a lot of vibrancy, horror, repugnance and the intrigue it holds is astronomically disturbing. The way it mades this interpretation about beauty, our glory days being fade away and the fear of being forgotten are just powerful messages adressed in such a terrifying fest, the camera work is beyond groundbreaking while in Sue we see this dynamics, this luscious feel to it, this eternal brightness on life and obviously making a rendition about the effervescence of youth while in the other hand with Elisabeth we see this pale tones, the vision is more stale, depressing and it makes your heart aches, is the cruel demonstration of the elderness reaching up, a defining moment of transformation and painful self doubts. I had to be honest, I was expecting to barf, to be nautious and uncontrollably ill but curiously enough it wasn’t the case, yes I was floored several times, I was wondering what the heck I was witnessing and why it was so graphic and sensual, but all of those aspects added to such a stellar experience, despite not being a wonderful spectacle, it treats the human nature, the disgusting society and the stupid prejudices about the outer beauty in such a monstrosity of narrative, I can see why it wasn’t the cup of tea of a lot of the audience and is totally understandable, is a misguided phenomenon with somehow such coherent storytelling. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley gave such impressing performances here, both had me at the edge of my seat, seeing their desconstruction, this releases of poignant alter egos and this constant battle of survival, all of those details made their portrayals so honest, valuable and breathtaking. Someone answer me why all the men’s on this film are such morons and grotesque? Why all of them are depraved and obsessed with the idea of perfect woman’s bodies? Ugh, that was hard to endure, I swear I wanted to punch them all on the face. Overall "The Substance" is a bewitched adventure soaked of realism, sometimes I thought I was watching "The Lord Of The Rings" and just with that thought it says a lot of how distorted it truly is, while some moments didn’t resonated with me, I thought the final arc of the film was so disjointed and it lack credibility on the purpose previously stated, it didn’t ruined the film but it could had been more well balanced without the abuse in the amount of bizarre resources, nonetheless I can’t deny that is a product amazingly crafted, uncommon from start to finish, that ending was so tragic but unlike a lot of people I liked the way it ended because behind all this nonsense there is a lot of unfortunate conclusions. All this overload of overflowing creativity was mind blowing and it didn’t cease to made me succumb on my most profound nerves and evident sweating. What a brilliant film. The most eventful effort.