Slow-burning descent into paranoia, alienation

On Monday, October 20, a premiere screening for Bugonia, starring Emma Stone was held at the Apex Theatre 10 in Roswell. Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia is a genre-blending descent into the surreal, fusing black comedy, science fiction and psychological thriller into a film that is as disorienting as it is deliberate. Loosely adapted from the 2003 South Korean cult classic "Save the Green Planet!" This version reimagines the story through a distinctly American lens steeped in conspiracy culture, ecological dread and existential unease.

The film opens with a languid pace, introducing us to Teddy (Jesse Plemons), a reclusive, conspiracy-obsessed beekeeper, and his impressionable cousin Donny (Aidan Delbis). Convinced that Michelle Fuller (Emma Ston

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