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Topic: Under the Skin (2014)
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Marcel Birgelen
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Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 10-20-2014 05:04 AM
So, someone finally decided to release this movie around here. Being a primarily British production, it's still rather strange it took forever to cross the channel. Maybe the disk arrived as "message-in-a-bottle"? Yeah, this surely isn't your main stream, in your face, Hollywood production. But with a bankable star like Scarlett Johansson, going fully nude for the first time, you would expect a bit more... homogenous release.
The local art house, which is usually packed to the brim, features all the crappy entourage you'd expect. They're at times pulling in more customers than the local multiplexes, even ask more for a ticket, but they still pride themselves in ghettoness all the way: tiny and small, unmasked, common width screens with way to big perforations. Legroom you say? Ventilation? Air-CONDITIONING?! And you know, those surrounds are just for decoration, didn't you? The Scottish accent was made even more unintelligible by the total lack of high frequencies, as if the center speaker was hooked up via long distance phone call from the 70s. But at least we got subtitles, even although there was no cooking involved ![[Wink]](wink.gif) .
Never having read the book this was based on, I went to this movie without any pre-set expectations. From what I know now, the book and the movie are quite different beasts and the movie is just "inspired by" and not "based upon".
It's certainly not a movie that takes your hand and tells the story for you. What's actually going on is pretty much left for your own interpretation.
The plot: Humanoid looking alien girl(?) is sent to earth to replace previous alien girl. Her primary task seems to be luring men into some kind of trap, primarily using her looks. Exactly why they're being "harvested" isn't made clear. Is it for their skin? Or are there other purposes?
During her quest, she encounters a man with an extreme facial disfigurement. She decides to let him live and enters a quest for something akin "self-recognition"...
Although I did actually like the concept, personally, I found the pacing to be somewhat slow. Maybe because I don't need three minutes of exposition to get a point across. Although it was clearly not the intention of the movie makers, I would've liked some more profound background regarding this alien race and their intentions for example.
All in all not a bad movie, but if you're easily offended by some explicit pictures or easily bored, probably not for you.
P.S.: The title lists this as a 2014 release, it was actually already produced and "released" back in 2013.
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