We, the audience watch the wild adventures of Bella Baxter in the new film, Poor Things, speechless.We’re so used to our claims for freedom being driven by the rage of need instead of by the candor of desire, that we marvel at how this woman is able to remove the pall of judgment in her ungainly and irresistible shots.

Finally, on Netflix, a movie tells the story of Diana Nyad, a sixty-year-old athlete who decides to make a nearly impossible dream come true: an open water swim of more than 160 km in the Straits of Florida that separate Cuba and Florida. She too follows her dream with conviction, despite the expectations of others.

And once again, the scent of freedom is in the air.