The skin of our habitat, the skin on which we live, our home is our skin, so we are not just a physical species, but also a place with all kinds of desires inside.
Vera is the name that Robert gave Vincent after he underwent sex reassignment surgery. It is also the name of his ex-wife. Similarly, he gave Vincent the exact same face as his ex-wife. Was Vincent voluntarily transgendered as a woman? No, he was kidnapped six years ago, and Robert risked the world to turn him into a woman. Why Vincent? Because Vincent overdose on drugs and "raped" Robert's mentally ill daughter Norma six years ago, Norma's condition deteriorated and he chose to commit suicide. Robert held a grudge and chose to use him to conduct his own crazy medical transgenic skin experiments. Why is Norma mentally ill? Because Robert's original wife was severely burned in a car accident, she recovered but couldn't accept her original beauty. She jumped off the building and committed suicide. She fell downstairs and died in front of her daughter Norma. Norma was insane. Why did Vera get into a car accident? Because she fell in love with Robert's younger brother Zeka at first sight, the two eloped, and the car crashed on the road and suffered severe burns.
List it like this, the story is not very complicated wow~ What do you think the director is talking about? In fact, since Vincent was kidnapped, you can guess who he will transform into. I think this story wants to tell "control", Robert's control over everything around him, and Vincent's control over his heart. Why did Vera run away with Robert's brother? It can be seen from Robert's control of Vincent after transgender and the control of his own daughter before. Vera must be in heavy shackles, like her daughter Norma, wearing high heels and a coat chosen by her father, socializing at inopportune times according to her father's wishes.
For Vincent, this method is really shocking! Some stories are like this, no matter how long it takes to "prepare" people, the moment when the truth is revealed will still shock the audience for a long time, or the audience will know the truth a long time ago, but still can't calm the stunned heart in the middle of this gap. There was a post saying that the reporter interviewed the director and asked whether Vincent had raped Norma (it is not easy to judge in the film), the director said no, and indeed in the film Vincent also said no, but this crime finally committed suicide due to the deterioration of Norma’s mental illness ( The same ending method as her mother) was firmly on his head, not so much that Vincent raped Norma, it was Robert who had voluntarily and spiritually raped his daughter six years ago. More devastating abuse, his revenge on Vincent is a kind of unwillingness.
Vincent, inadvertently saw the yoga class broadcast on the TV channel. Through this high-intensity practice, he maintained a little bit of peace, inviolability and destruction in his heart. The details in the film also revealed that he never really felt in his heart. Accept Robert, the villain who abused himself, so it is not surprising that he will end Robert's fate in the end.
In the end Vincent escaped and escaped back to his original home, but do you think he escaped? After six years of burnt skin, new genetically modified skin transplants, organs repurposed, and uncontrolled transformation into a woman, can he escape?
Finally, I would like to say that I like this Spanish director and this film. Although too many people suffer in the story, it is not difficult to see that the director still has a different kind of love for women, and he expounds this kind of sympathy and compassion from beginning to end.
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