Chinese and Western science fiction and fantasy have the same goal

Weston 2022-04-21 09:01:57

I don't want to comment too much on the story and pictures of the film itself, but mainly from the values ​​of the film. The story of the film is actually very simple. Several aliens are stranded on Earth, relying on female aliens to seduce men and supply the aliens with their blood and essence. In the end, the female alien developed emotions and hoped that she would become an ordinary earth woman.
This simple story initially attracted me only because Scarlett was completely naked. Forgive me for being uninhibited and vulgar, I really did come here for this gimmick. Then, I forgot this original intention, because when the goddess took off her clothes, she really didn't have much to look at, and she completely lost the character of the black widow. So, start focusing on the story itself. For some reason, I suddenly thought of a Chinese-style fantasy story. Such as "Painted Skin", such as the countless banshees in Liaozhai. They all have one characteristic in common. At first, they all recognized their current way of life. For example, the fox demon felt that it was good to attract people occasionally, and they were so cold. One day, however, they started to want to live among real people, so they went. Then, they began to be infected with more and more popularity and humanity. They start to fall in love with a person, so they start to want to become a real person. Isn't it the same for the female alien in the skin? At the beginning, she recognized her way of life and hunting, just using the skins of earth women to hunt for food. However, she lived in the crowd for a long time, became more and more human, and began to have feelings, even love. When she fell in love with an earth man and wanted to go further, she found out that she was not an earth person and couldn't hehe. This is how the contradiction arises.
When a person's spirit is ahead of the body, the pain is great. So, the female alien is almost crazy. Like almost all and alien love, it ended in tragedy.
I don't know if the female alien played by Scarlett will regret it, or if she has already enjoyed the thrill of being an earth woman in spirit!
Maybe, around us, there are also such aliens, who are eager to become an ordinary earth person, who can say for sure?

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Under the Skin quotes

  • Female Voice: Do you think I'm pretty?

    First Victim: Aye, I think you're gorgeous.

    Female Voice: Do you?

    First Victim: Aye, definitely.

  • The Deformed Man: This isn't Tesco's, is it?

    Female: No.