Warning: This post contains spoilers for Bugonia .

If you're wondering how the title Bugonia connects to a movie about two conspiracy theorists who kidnap the head of a major pharmaceutical company, believing she's a member of an invasive alien species, it all comes back to the bees.

In the new black comedy thriller from director Yorgos Lanthimos ( Poor Things , The Favourite ), now in theaters, amateur beekeeper Teddy Gatz ( Jesse Plemons ) is convinced his honey bee hives are falling victim to Colony Collapse Disorder —a phenomenon in which worker bees mysteriously disappear, leaving the queen behind and the colony doomed—as a result of chemicals manufactured by Auxolith, the megacorporation run by high-powered CEO Michelle Fuller ( Emma Stone ). Teddy also wo

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