How delightful! This makes us whole. Then we can know the world. And when we know the world⦠The world is ours. It is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Alasdair Gray. Soft-spoken medical student Max McCandles Youssef is recruited for a special task by his mysterious surgical instructor, Dr.
Max eventually learns that Bella is an experiment crafted out of the body of a pregnant woman who committed suicide and the brain of her unborn baby. Despite this, he's smitten by her beauty and agrees to Dr. Baxter's suggestion that he marry her, even as Bella's awareness and desire for sexual pleasure increases and she becomes frustrated by her creator's insistence that she must never leave his house. The caddish lawyer Duncan Wedderburn Ruffalo is intrigued by the idea of a woman so fascinating that she requires a marriage contract that stipulates she must be hidden away from the world, and after meeting the now very sexually curious Bella, he spirits her away on a grand tour of Europe.
But it's not just Bella's libido that's growing and maturing, and as she comes into her own as a curious, altruistic, and intelligent young woman, she quickly outgrows the shallow and chauvinistic Wedderburn and sets out to claim her own destiny. It was theatrically released in the United States on December 8th, , and in the United Kingdom on January 12th, Adaptational Alternate Ending : The majority of the book is written from the point of view of Archibald McCandles Max in the film and his account ends at roughly the same point as the film.
The book then continues in the form of a letter written by Bella, who is now going by Victoria; she has read her late husband's book and is, in short, disgusted by it. She gives her own, much more realistic, version of the story, revealing that she never attempted suicide or was pregnant let alone some sort of Frankensteinian abomination , that she was deeply in love with Godwin, who was a completely normal and attractive man but who rejected all romantic entanglements, and that she never really cared much for Archie at all, seeing him as a tolerable convenience.
Some events are the same, such as her running away from her first husband, living with Godwin, and getting engaged to Archie but then running away with Wedderburn, but she puts Archie's fantastical retelling down as a way to hide his own inadequacies as a man, doctor, and husband.
