Review of The Skin I Live In (2011) by Mahmoud S — 15 Jul 2013
Dr. Robert Ledgar, a successful plastic surgeon hunted by a tragic past, lives in his privately cultivated life with his own clinic, finds after twelve years of research to create an new type of skin that is tougher than the human skin.
Risking his own career by conducting a forbidden trans-gene on his own prototype, a mysterious woman that he keeps locked in his house and has the looks of his dead wife. Now, I did my best to not spoil this great movie, with a great performance for all the main characters especially Elena Anaya, even with the creepy and mysterious art house mood that Almodóvar delivers and that happens to fit well.
As the storyline flows with a fluid and twisted narration, Almodóvar sympathizes with the Female gender, by changing a man, to make him feel the pains of women, to show him how can a woman get hurt. By introducing the stereotype the cruelty of men, Zeca (funny, cause he even wears the costume of an animal), this kind of stereotype knows no mercy, no tenderness, no reasoning, that's why he deserved death, as for Vicente, he had his weaknesses, he could feel the pain that's why Dr.
Robert took him. In the end, it was an entertaining but thrilling ride, and it might seem weird at first but in the end "esta espectacular".
This review of The Skin I Live In (2011) was written by Mahmoud S on 15 Jul 2013.
The Skin I Live In has generally received very positive reviews.
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