From the very start, it uses a combination of beauty and disgust, where it has many scenes using the visual language of beauty, sexiness and attraction, but in a context that makes it never be alluring, just vulnerable and depressing, or perhaps it will make some viewers excited and disgusted with themselves for being excited.
Also from the start, it has a visual style of focusing on the grotesque details of everyday situations, but it stays a plausible speculative "what if we introduced this one premise" fiction until probably a bit before the two-hour mark, at which point it could have ended and it would still have been an evocative and sharp critique of the beauty and entertainment industry. Curtain. Applause. Brilliant movie.