You do it! DOOOOO EEEEEET!!!I have to sit down properly & give it a watch right through.
Under the Skin. - 8/10
Hypnotic, fascinating and visually brilliant yet I still have no idea what I really watched. I'd say I'd watch it again but I'm not sure that would help.
Spoiler:Did anyone feel any sympathy for the alien towards the end of the movie? I didn't due to the acts previously performed but it's something that crossed my mind upon reflection. Also were the bikers searching for Scarlett's character due to her becoming almost too human? Did she let the guy go out of sympathy who the biker threw into the boot of the stolen car?
So many questions and possible interpretations.
Spoiler:I certainly felt that the alien had made, for the first time, a connection with humanity - as though she'd spent so much time in her human skin that she had grown attached to it (also the romantic encounter with the man who cared for her seemed to play a part). I can't recall whether there was any clear signal as to why she left the city in the first place? I didn't feel as though she 'got what she deserved' though - she was emotionally detached from the value of human life - there was no malice in her luring of men to their deaths. The scene where the woman and husband were drowned in the sea also beautifully conveyed her detachment.
It's been a while since I've watched a movie that has lingered in my thoughts for days afterwards. I liked Scarlett in just about everything I've seen her in, but I thought this was one of her finest roles.
Spoiler:Is it common knowledge that she was, in fact, an alien? Naturally that's what I assumed, but I read a comment that she was a robot created by the aliens to lure in the humans.
This is one of the creepiest movies I've ever seen. The score certainly helped make it that, as well as the way the humans were trapped and killed. I keep replaying those scenes in my head. Scarlett's slow backward walk with her hypnotized subject following her through black nothingness, both completely void of emotion. The wading and eventual swimming through the water before being totally submerged, with Scarlett still walking away. Loved that. Seeing that one guy have all of his innards instantly sucked out, with only his skin remaining, was disturbing. It's not a new sci-fi concept or anything, but it felt like it the way it was portrayed in this movie.
Don't tell me you've never seen "HERO" (2002)...
It is faaaaaar better than Tiger/Dragon.
Love Crouching Tiger, Hero didn't really do much for me.
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