Review of Under the Skin (2014) by Llamayarmybar — 06 Aug 2015

I've never been so upset by the last 40 minutes of a film in my life. Compound that with the amount of people literally implying such ridiculous notions as, "you probably just didn't understand everything going on in the film- that's why you didn't like it.

" No. No I understood what was going on, and it was fairly obvious by about an hour into the film. Up until that hour I was actually enjoying it, I saw it as a sort of abstract thought experiment film that tried to convey the mind of a female serial killer femme fatale- and my goodness realizing what this film WASN'T gonna be about was far more shocking by the time I ultimately reached the miserable ending.

You wanna know what obvious imagery they put in this film for people pretentious enough to tell you its a film that involves multiple viewings? Ant on her hand, the ant is human beings! Fly on the glass trying to escape! So is she! This isn't obvious imagery at all! I'm a character that doesn't understand human beings so we'll set the film somewhere in Europe.

How about some country where people have a really strong accent! That will make it even more obvious how "alien" Scarlett Johansson's character feels! Scotland? Perfect! Hey lets have a sequence where she completely disregards human life or their safety and totally mislead people in the audience to think, "wow she is totally a psychopath!" This film has disturbing imagery, a nightmarish soundtrack, is immensely suspenseful and all this is immediately ruined by the films sudden desire to commit plot suicide in one of the most contrived, silly, dumb, and poorly written endings that will literally have you wondering why you just waited nearly two hours on a film that ruined its own "twist" only an hour in.

If it wasn't obvious from the beginning of the film its only more obvious as it goes on. Which is just abominable and quite frankly could've been pulled off so much better. I'm not accusing the film of being pretentious, but you can't combine a thriller with a Science-fiction twist with the kind of imagery and sequences in this film.

It paints the wrong picture for the audience and its very disappointing to both crowds of those particular genres. You want to see Scarlett Johansson nude here and there? Than definitely watch it, however, if you want an E.

T. meets Species kind of film you're going to probably want to turn this off, and pick out one or the other- you can't have both anyway- that would just be filthy.