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Under the Skin (2013)

Scifi | 108 minutes
3,02 1.196 votes

Genre: Scifi / Thriller

Duration: 108 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / United States / Switzerland / Poland

Directed by: Jonathan Glazer

Stars: Scarlett Johansson and Kryštof Hádek

IMDb score: 6,3 (168.925)

Releasedate: 14 March 2014

Under the Skin plot

A mysterious woman crosses Scotland and approaches unsuspecting passers-by from her van, only to seduce and trap them. Again and again she manages to ensnare her male prey with her sexuality. What is her story?

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wezli

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The Man Who Fell to Earth in a new contemporary dark jacket (no pun...). It reminded me of it. But I also seemed to see various directors such as Tarkovsky, Kubrick (it probably won't) and even Lars von Trier here and there.

What I really like are the abstract nightmarish images, with the somewhat sober images of the British van, the rain against the window and the beautiful but gray nature. But at all times by the speakers supported by a threateningly oppressive soundscape. It all seems like one big psychosis experience at first. Until the monkey comes out of the sleeve, or the alien from the human say

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Flat Eric

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Go ahead, 5* !

Seen it several times now, but it remains a disturbing film that I keep watching mesmerized. Scarlet is amazing in her guise as a mysterious decoy. The men fall into the trap. The 'how' is great, the 'why' remains a mystery.

The film gets under the skin every time.

The soundtrack in combination with the images contributes to that experience.

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JJ_D

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Under the skin?

What's under the skin? Under her skin? The men who show no interest in that will be swallowed up. They shrivel, they lose their shape, they become what they consider the feminine for: something to use and throw away, to finally destroy, waste of their libido.

What if that skin is battered? What if that skin shows a shattered face, what if the creature (in every sense of that word) expresses through the skin of the face that it yearns for what lies beyond its skin? Those who want more than just a sexual adventure are given freedom. At least for a while. Because she cannot participate in that story: her femininity is an algorithm, her introitus an imaginary beginning?

What's under her skin? A robot, a program, a prototype, something else, from elsewhere. Even if she doesn't want to use her looks to trap men in the nets of their own desire, it still happens. She still arouses lust. The skin gets in her way, will always get in her way. Those who are beautiful always feel threatened...

Is that the story, or at least one of the stories that contains the utterly obscure 'Under the skin'? The film that begins as a choreography of celestial bodies in the cosmos (after all, a conditio sine quae non for cinema), as a glow of light (ditto), like an eye (ditto!)…the film seems to want to open the gate to an infinite number of interpretations.

Interesting you say?
Sheer nonsense, I say.

Jonathan Glazer takes himself very seriously, as is apparent from the mystical atmosphere that never lends itself to a sensible, conclusive interpretation. So what to do with it? Glad Scarlett Johansson is parading through it stark naked? Or wait, wasn't that exactly what Glazer wanted to challenge? Oh, never mind.

1.75*

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