“I
just wanted to get away.”
“Why
here?”
“Because
it’s anywhere.”
There are several movies I have seen that have left me
thinking what the fuck did I just watch? I like crazy mind fuck movies. If a
movie can leave me a bit confused but kind of understanding I think it is good.
To me that means they have some deep undertones that need to be looked up. Under the Skin was definitely one of
those mind fuck movies that once I researched I understood it a little bit
better.
The story takes place through the eyes of an alien woman
simply credited as The Female (Scarlett Johansson). She is given the body of a
dead girl. The Female takes the clothes off the girl then goes to a mall to get
clothes and makeup.
The Female drives around in a van. While driving she
observes people and also picks up men. Some of the men she drives she lures
back to an apartment or house. This apartment or house turns into a completely
black room. With every man she brings back she takes off more and more of her
clothes. The men strip down to nothing as they follow her. They do not even
realize they walk into what looks like a very deep puddle of water and are emerged
in some kind of liquid. The liquid pulls everything out of their bodies until
just their skin is left.
The more The Female travels around she tries more human
things such as eating and having sex. But with all this participation and
observation the more she becomes disenchanted with the human world she sees it
for how harsh and evil it really is.
My summary is what I was able to get out of Under the Skin while watching it and
after looking up the plot and some reviews. I think the idea of seeing the
human world in the eyes of an actual alien is genius especially because it
through the eyes of a woman and how easily some of the men were able to be
seduced. I also think it was fascinating that a man wrote the screenplay and he
is showing a spectrum of men from nice guys to guys looking for sex and being
easily seduced to a guy with a horrible facial disfigurement to an evil bastard
who molested The Female and eventually killed her. I know not all men are like
this they were stereotypes but a lot of the men in this movie were not actors. The
characteristics of these men also taught The Female a range of human emotions
and feelings she never experienced before. Under
the Skin will leave you saying to yourself “what the fuck?” but I will say
it is worth watching at least once. It is different and mind fucking yet it is
interesting and intriguing.
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