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'Bugonia' Review: A twisted tale in the current age of conspiracy theories

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The trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos' film "Bugonia" starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. In select theaters Oct. 24, wide release Oct. 31. 

Conspiracy theories have become more than a harmless hobby for certain folks. They go down online rabbit holes and choose their own truths versus what's actually reality. To conspiracists, everything presented to them only reinforces what they believe, becoming part of their identity.

"Bugonia" is a reflection of the times we live in.

Yorgos Lanthimos' latest — an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean flick "Save the Green Planet!" — follows Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons), a paranoid beekeeper and a package scanner for the pharmaceutical giant Auxolith, who plots to kidnap the company's CEO Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), someone who he thinks is an alien hellbent on destroying Earth. 

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Jesse Plemons stars as Teddy in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, a Focus Features release. (Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features.)

Fuller is an Elizabeth Holmes-type boss — robotic-sounding to her staff, always wearing the same white blouse and black jacket as seen in several magazine covers and framed photos, obsessed with wellness. 

Teddy is a leader in his own right, too. He's a one-man "human resistance" as he calls himself, two if you count his........

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