Under The Skin

[poliphilo]

The man is naked. He follows the woman into the dark. She walks on the surface of the black water but he sinks into it and is gone.

Millions of images coming at us.  Endlessly. This one is indelible.

Film history.

It's sort of a chase movie. Alien operative goes awol. The biker gives chase. It's Scotland. It's winter.

The alien watches and we become the alien. The human race so predatory and so merciful; perhaps not so worthless after all. The hunter falters and becomes the hunted.

Snow falls.

Comments

[ingenious76.livejournal.com]

Its a bizarre, frightening, and fascinating film. I found watching what people do in their daily lives very odd, as though seeing it through the alien's lives. And frankly, the scene on the beach destroyed me. I can't ever watch this again.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a film that takes all sorts of risks. Apparently the audience divided at its first showing- some booed, some cheered. That only happens with exceptional works of art.

[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

Yes, a fantastic film.